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Nothing made by brute force lasts.

~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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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

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Everyone lives by selling something.

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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

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We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

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No man is useless while he has a friend.

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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Writer

Born: November 13th, 1850

Died: December 3rd, 1894

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