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Maxioms by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other read more

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

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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but read more

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, read more

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?

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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare read more

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

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