Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

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It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.

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Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

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By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

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I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.

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A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must have little to do," said the man. The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man. "I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad. "I thought it would come to that," said the man.

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Take care of each other.

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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

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The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.

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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

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To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

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If this is death, it is easier than life.

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There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

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To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.

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I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.

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Sit loosely in the saddle.

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Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.

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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

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When the grass was closely mown, Walking on the lawn alone, In the turf a hole I found, And hid a soldier underground. Spring and daisies came apace; Grasses hide my hiding place; Grasses run like a green sea O'er the lawn up to my knee.

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