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Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
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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Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Luis Stivensoni
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Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Lui Stivenson
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After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.
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There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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They say cowardice is infectious but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.
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Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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