I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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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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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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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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