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If he be Mr. Hyde he had thought, I shall be Mr. Seek.
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
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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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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.
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I am painfully situated, Utterson my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.
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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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We do not go to cowards for tender dealing there is nothing so cruel as panic the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.
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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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To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.
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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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