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Everyone lives by selling something.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Age: 44 †
Born: 1850
Born: November 13
Died: 1894
Died: December 3
Essayist
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Luis Stivensoni
Shih-ti-wen-sheng
Stivenson
Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Lui Stivenson
RL Stivenson
RL Stevenson
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Life
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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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When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.
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The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth.
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Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm sure-- Or else his dear Papa is poor.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.
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Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
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It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. Wine is bottled poetry
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