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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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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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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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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 I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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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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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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