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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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Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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They say cowardice is infectious but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.
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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.
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As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of all work and no play until here they are at forty, with a listless attention, a mind vacant of all material of amusement, and not one thought to rub against another, while they wait for the train.
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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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The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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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Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore!
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A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.
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To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.
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It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.
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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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There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.
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Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.
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