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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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There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else.
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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.
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There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.
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But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.
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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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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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Hope looks for unqualified success but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.
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A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.
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But of works of art little can be said.
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With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Youth is wholly experimental.
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The essence of love is kindness.
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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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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Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
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