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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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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Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.
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It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
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In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer to forget oneself is to be happy.
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Make up your mind to be happy.
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As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of all work and no play until here they are at forty, with a listless attention, a mind vacant of all material of amusement, and not one thought to rub against another, while they wait for the train.
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The obscurest epoch is to-day.
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The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.
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The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.
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Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.
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The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.
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These are my politics: to change what we can to better what we can but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.
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