Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds you...

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds you...

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

The saints are the sinners who keep on going

The saints are the sinners who keep on going

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like...

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like...

For God's sake, give me the young man who has brains enough to make a...

For God's sake, give me the young man who has brains enough to make a...

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude...

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude...

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however...

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however...

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a...

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a...

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there...

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there...

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.