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Make up your mind to be happy.
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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Edinburgh
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Robert Luis Stivensoni
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Robert Loui Sitivensin
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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I am painfully situated, Utterson my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Ice and iron cannot be welded.
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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm sure-- Or else his dear Papa is poor.
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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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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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