Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONPolitics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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