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Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Age: 44 †
Born: 1850
Born: November 13
Died: 1894
Died: December 3
Essayist
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Edinburgh
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.
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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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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
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If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.
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Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.
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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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This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.
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Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.
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I believe in an ultimate decency of things.
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Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone.... Freedom is of the essence, because you should be able to stop and go on and follow this way or that as the freak takes you.... There should be no cackle of voices at your elbow to jar on the meditative silence of the morning.
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I incline to Cain's heresy, he used to say quaintly: I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.
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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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Sing a song of seasons something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.
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Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Youth is wholly experimental.
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There is no foreign land it is the traveller only that is foreign.
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It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.
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Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.
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