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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.
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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When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.
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An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!
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There comes an end to all things the most capacious measure is filled at last and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.
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You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy.
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