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Robert Louis Stevenson

"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."

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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."

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"If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do."

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"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."

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"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."

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"Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate."
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"There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may."
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"We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."
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"We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series."
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