Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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