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Robert Louis Stevenson
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“When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“So long as we love, we serve so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Wine is bottled poetry.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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