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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
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I smoke a pipe abroad, because To all cigars I much prefer it, And as I scorn you social laws, My choice has nothing to deter it.
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Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.
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I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
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But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.
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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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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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Fear is the strong passion it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.
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A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?
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Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
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If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.
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