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Robert Louis Stevenson
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"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Topic(s):
Friendship
"Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Topic(s):
Life
"That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Topic(s):
Success
"Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Topic(s):
Good
"The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Topic(s):
Art
"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."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Topic(s):
Marriage
"When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Topic(s):
Great
"It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Topic(s):
Health
"In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Topic(s):
Marriage
"There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Topic(s):
Change
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