Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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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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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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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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