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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Age: 44 †
Born: 1850
Born: November 13
Died: 1894
Died: December 3
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Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Luis Stivensoni
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Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Lui Stivenson
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If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.
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Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone.... Freedom is of the essence, because you should be able to stop and go on and follow this way or that as the freak takes you.... There should be no cackle of voices at your elbow to jar on the meditative silence of the morning.
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The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.
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If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife
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Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
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I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Children are certainly too good to be true.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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