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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.
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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Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
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This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.
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Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder certain old houses demand to be haunted certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.
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I am painfully situated, Utterson my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.
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The obscurest epoch is to-day.
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In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer to forget oneself is to be happy.
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For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
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