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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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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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Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.
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To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
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The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.
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The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm sure-- Or else his dear Papa is poor.
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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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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
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A proposition of geometry does not compete with life and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact both inhere in nature, neither represents it.
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Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.
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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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Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?
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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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Youth is wholly experimental.
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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.
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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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No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.
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Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
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Do not forget that even as to work is to worship so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.
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