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I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. Wine is bottled poetry

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
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Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.
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A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.
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The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.
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An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils.
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My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by For every night at tea-time and before you take your seat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.
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In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.
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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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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 have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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Live life to the fullest.
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The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.
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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge of sense and that impression of mystic strangeness which otherwise passes out of life with the coming of years but the sight of a loved face is what renews a man's character from the fountain upwards.
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