Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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