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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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.
No man is useless while he has a friend.
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
Nothing made by brute force lasts.
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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.
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.
So long as we love, we serve; 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.
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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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Robert Louis Stevenson
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13 November, 1850
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03 December, 1894
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Scotland
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