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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.
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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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro, A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain, The passion of the gale.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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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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I hate to write, but I love to have written.
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.
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When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
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A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.
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It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
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I believe in an ultimate decency of things.
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Children are certainly too good to be true.
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The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.
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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.
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I wish these flies would piss off.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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