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Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
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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Stivenson
Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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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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Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.
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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Make up your mind to be happy.
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Jekyll had more than a father's interest Hyde had more than a son's indifference.
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Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.
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Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed failure is the fate allotted. It is so in every art and study it is so above all in the continent art of living well.
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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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The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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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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