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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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To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.
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Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.
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I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.
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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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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.
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I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.
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My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by For every night at tea-time and before you take your seat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.
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You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
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Sit loosely in the saddle.
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In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.
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When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
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Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder certain old houses demand to be haunted certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.
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