Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet

Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 7.4 “Discipline of Conscience”
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A collection of aphorisms and musings, first published in the Edinburgh Edition of his Works, vol. 28 (1898).