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The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.
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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For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
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The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.
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I wish these flies would piss off.
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Hope looks for unqualified success but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.
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Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
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