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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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Robert Loui Sitivensin
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my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
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Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.
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As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of all work and no play until here they are at forty, with a listless attention, a mind vacant of all material of amusement, and not one thought to rub against another, while they wait for the train.
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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