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The essence of love is kindness.

The essence of love is kindness.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Love, Marriage, Kindness
Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4469, Delphi Classics

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage, People, Married
Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4453, Delphi Classics

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage, Long, Disputes
Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson”, p.78, Sheba Blake Publishing

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
Marriage, Laughter, Philosophical
Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.572, Jazzybee Verlag

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage, Suicide, Married
'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'Virginibus Puerisque, pt. 2'

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Friendship, Marriage, Police
"Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers".

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage, Husband, Selfish
'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'Virginibus Puerisque, pt. 1'

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage, Funny Love, Police
"Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records".

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