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But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.
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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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.
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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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Do not forget that even as to work is to worship so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.
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