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This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.
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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Children are certainly too good to be true.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.
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