Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes...

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes...

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

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

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

We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we...

We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we...

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you...

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you...

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly wide

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly wide

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and...

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and...

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the...

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the...

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not...

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not...

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by...

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by...

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on...

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on...

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do...

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do...

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon...

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon...

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant...

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant...

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

I respect Millar: he has raised the price of literature

I respect Millar: he has raised the price of literature