Tag: Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; 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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Robert Louis Stevenson