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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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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Robert Luis Stivensoni
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Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed failure is the fate allotted. It is so in every art and study it is so above all in the continent art of living well.
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When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
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When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.
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It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Everything is true only the opposite is true too you must believe both equally or be damned.
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We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.
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You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.
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Sit loosely in the saddle.
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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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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
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The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.
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Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore!
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