The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONPolitics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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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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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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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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