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The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.
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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We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.
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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.
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.
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When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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Fear is the strong passion it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
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I hate to write, but I love to have written.
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It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.
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In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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