To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and ...

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer

November 13th, 1850 - December 3rd, 1894