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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Age: 44 †
Born: 1850
Born: November 13
Died: 1894
Died: December 3
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Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.
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And this shall be for music when no one else is near, The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear! That only I remember, that only you admire, Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.
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We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.
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