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Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
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 lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.
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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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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.
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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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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
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A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.
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There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.
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To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.
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Little do ye know your own blessedness for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
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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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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.
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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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If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.
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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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I've a grand memory for forgetting.
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
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