"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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"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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"The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
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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?"
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"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."
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"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."
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"I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas."
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