The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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