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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.
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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
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Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.
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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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After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.
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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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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
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The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.
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The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.
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It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. Not to keep hours for a lifetime is... to live forever.
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Youth is wholly experimental.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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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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