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If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.
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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Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.
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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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Love- what is love? A great and aching heart Wrung hands and silence and a long despair
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I've a grand memory for forgetting.
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Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
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His past was fairly blameless few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.
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