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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
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 Lui Stivenson
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Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.
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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 saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.
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Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.
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Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.
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If he be Mr. Hyde he had thought, I shall be Mr. Seek.
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To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
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I wish these flies would piss off.
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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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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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It takes hard writing to make easy reading.
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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge of sense and that impression of mystic strangeness which otherwise passes out of life with the coming of years but the sight of a loved face is what renews a man's character from the fountain upwards.
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No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.
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They say cowardice is infectious but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do!
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Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill.
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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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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.
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