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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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