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A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.
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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.
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Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.
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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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Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
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Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?
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But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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