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Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.
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Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex but being only a little dog, he began to bite them.
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Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.
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Hope looks for unqualified success but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.
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It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.
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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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It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?
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The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.
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Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
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A proposition of geometry does not compete with life and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact both inhere in nature, neither represents it.
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To be overwise is to ossify and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.
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If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.
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Some people swallow the universe like a pill they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
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There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.
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Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
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My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring
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If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.
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