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Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers Quotes

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.

Source:Essay 1. Virginibus Puerisque, Part I (1876), Page 19
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Robert Louis Stevenson (Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers Quotes)
  • Book: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers
  • Writer: Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Genre: Essays
  • Published: 1881
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