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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
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Little do ye know your own blessedness for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.
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The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.
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This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.
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They say cowardice is infectious but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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To miss the joy is to miss everything.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.
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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.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.
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There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.
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