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It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
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 Lewis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Luis Stivensoni
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Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.
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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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To miss the joy is to miss everything.
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Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.
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Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .
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The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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If this is death, it is easier than life.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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I smoke a pipe abroad, because To all cigars I much prefer it, And as I scorn you social laws, My choice has nothing to deter it.
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I believe in an ultimate decency of things.
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