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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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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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Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
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The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm sure-- Or else his dear Papa is poor.
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But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.
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There is no foreign land it is the traveller only that is foreign.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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To miss the joy is to miss everything.
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I sat in the sun on a bench the animal within me licking the chops of memory the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.
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Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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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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Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.
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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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In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.
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There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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