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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine. ↗

— 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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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