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In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

— Robert Louis Stevenson Old Mortality (1884)

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The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882)

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

Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.

Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

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