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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.
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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.
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I incline to Cain's heresy, he used to say quaintly: I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.
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Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
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