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My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring
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
Scotland
Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Luis Stivensoni
Shih-ti-wen-sheng
Stivenson
Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Lui Stivenson
RL Stivenson
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-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.
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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.
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A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?
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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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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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In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.
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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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I believe in an ultimate decency of things.
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