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 STEVENSONIt 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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