Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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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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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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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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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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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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