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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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Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Luis Stivensoni
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Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.
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I smoke a pipe abroad, because To all cigars I much prefer it, And as I scorn you social laws, My choice has nothing to deter it.
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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.
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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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Live life to the fullest.
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I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
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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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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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Children are certainly too good to be true.
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Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.
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