We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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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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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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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 cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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