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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Age: 44 †
Born: 1850
Born: November 13
Died: 1894
Died: December 3
Essayist
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Edinburgh
Scotland
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I smoke a pipe abroad, because To all cigars I much prefer it, And as I scorn you social laws, My choice has nothing to deter it.
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Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill.
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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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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro, A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain, The passion of the gale.
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Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.
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A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?
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The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.
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Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
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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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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
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A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.
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To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.
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Jekyll had more than a father's interest Hyde had more than a son's indifference.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.
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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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