Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Even 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.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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