The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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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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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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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