We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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