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Your Quotes for 13 November 2005 - Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson was born at Edinburgh, Scotland on this day in 1850. Expecting to follow in his fathers footsteps as an engineer, he went to the University of Edinburgh, but poor health caused him to switch to law. He was admitted to the bar as an advocate at age 25, but had already decided to become a writer. Somewhere he changed the Lewis to Louis, so whichever pronunciation you hear for his second name, it was correct for part of his life. I read a lot of Stevenson when I was young and remember it fondly, his stories of travel and adventure were gems.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
      - All from Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850 - 1894

Note: Two more quotes were in the mailing on this date, but it turns out that neither was actually from Stevenson - these were.

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