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After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.
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
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Lui Stivenson
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.
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The true success is to labour.
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Children are certainly too good to be true.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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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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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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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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Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.
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It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?
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Everything is true only the opposite is true too you must believe both equally or be damned.
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Sit loosely in the saddle.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife
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My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring
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Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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I've a grand memory for forgetting.
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Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.
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Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .
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