Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWine is bottled poetry.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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