Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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