There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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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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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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