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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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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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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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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