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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

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

Everyone lives by selling something.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

Robert Louis Stevenson