Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIn marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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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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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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