In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEven if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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