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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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