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

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


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



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