WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/stevenson-robert-louis/32771/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Robert Louis Stevenson</b></a></p><blockquote>Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God’s sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!</blockquote><p><b>Robert Louis Stevenson</b> (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet<br>Essay (1878-03), “Crabbed Age and Youth,” <i>Cornhill</i> Magazine, Vol. 37</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/stevenson-robert-louis/32771/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=robertlouisstevenson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>robertlouisstevenson</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=ambition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ambition</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=attempt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>attempt</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=error" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>error</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=experiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>experiment</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=folly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>folly</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=mistake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mistake</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=selfconfidence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfconfidence</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=youth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>youth</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=acceptance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>acceptance</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=challenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>challenge</span></a></p>