Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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There 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.
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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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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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To 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.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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