Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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