Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONPerpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEverybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONPolitics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOne 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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMost of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere 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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo forget oneself is to be happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWine is bottled poetry.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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