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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Age: 44 †
Born: 1850
Born: November 13
Died: 1894
Died: December 3
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
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Writer
Edinburgh
Scotland
Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Luis Stivensoni
Shih-ti-wen-sheng
Stivenson
Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Lui Stivenson
RL Stivenson
RL Stevenson
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Life
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Happiness
Ascending
Another
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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If this is death, it is easier than life.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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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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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils.
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It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?
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and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying I am sorry!
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
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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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I've a grand memory for forgetting.
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Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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