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Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Age: 44 †
Born: 1850
Born: November 13
Died: 1894
Died: December 3
Essayist
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Edinburgh
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Robert Loui Sitivensin
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To be overwise is to ossify and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.
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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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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.
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There comes an end to all things the most capacious measure is filled at last and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.
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