WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/stevenson-robert-louis/78277/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Robert Louis Stevenson</b></a></p><blockquote>Undying hope is co-ruler of the human bosom with infallible credulity. A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.</blockquote><p><b>Robert Louis Stevenson</b> (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet<br>Essay (1878-03), “Crabbed Age and Youth,” <i>Cornhill Magazine</i>, Vol. 37</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/stevenson-robert-louis/78277/" 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=age" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>age</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=credulity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>credulity</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=hope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hope</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=infallibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>infallibility</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=maturity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maturity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=oldage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oldage</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=rectitude" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rectitude</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=selfdeception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfdeception</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=selfrighteousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfrighteousness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=wisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wisdom</span></a></p>