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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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 know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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