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The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.
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 saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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 Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.
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There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.
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Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.
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A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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But of works of art little can be said.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.
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They say cowardice is infectious but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.
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Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
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and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying I am sorry!
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.
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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
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