The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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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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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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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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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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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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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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