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

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By...

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By...

The saints are the sinners who keep on going

The saints are the sinners who keep on going

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably...

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably...

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

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...

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage...

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage...

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind...

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind...

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a...

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a...

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship...

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship...

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...

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...

The obscurest epoch is today.

The obscurest epoch is today.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there...

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there...