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If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife
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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The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.
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It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night That somehow the right is the right And the smooth shall bloom from the rough: Lord, if that were enough?
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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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Do not forget that even as to work is to worship so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.
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Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?
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Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.
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