In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONBy being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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The world is so 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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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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.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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