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A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.
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 would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.
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The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.
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You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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