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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
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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The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.
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But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.
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We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.
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Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?
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Some people swallow the universe like a pill they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.
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Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that sips.
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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
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