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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
Essayist
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Edinburgh
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Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Luis Stivensoni
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Stivenson
Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Lui Stivenson
RL Stivenson
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I incline to Cain's heresy, he used to say quaintly: I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.
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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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When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.
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I wish these flies would piss off.
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If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.
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Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?
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The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Youth now flees on feathered foot.
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