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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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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I've a grand memory for forgetting.
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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.
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Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
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Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.
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If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.
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They say cowardice is infectious but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.
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my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
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To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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