Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOnce you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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