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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.
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
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Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Luis Stivensoni
Shih-ti-wen-sheng
Stivenson
Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Lui Stivenson
RL Stivenson
RL Stevenson
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.
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There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape.
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We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.
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I incline to Cain's heresy, he used to say quaintly: I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.
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If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.
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You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy.
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They say cowardice is infectious but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.
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Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.
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