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And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.
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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To be overwise is to ossify and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.
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Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.
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It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone.
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