In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONFor my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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