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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
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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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Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill.
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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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Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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