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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits. - Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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

Source:Letters and Miscellanies of Robert Louis Stevenson (1902), Addenda, Chapter V. Reflections and Remarks on Human Life, Page 629
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  • Name: Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Profession: Writer, Novelist, Essayist
  • Born: November 13, 1850 - December 3, 1894
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