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Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.

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Robert Louis Stevenson
Age: 44 †
Born: 1850
Born: November 13
Died: 1894
Died: December 3
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Songwriter
Writer
Edinburgh
Scotland
Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Luis Stivensoni
Shih-ti-wen-sheng
Stivenson
Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Lui Stivenson
RL Stivenson
RL Stevenson
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Flourish
Wine
Salad
Among
Bowl
Capacious
Poetry
Bowls
Scented
Soul
Poetic
Onion
Firsts
Fairs
Maiden
First
Fair
Maidens
Rose
Onions

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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.
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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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Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
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Hope looks for unqualified success but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.
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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
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There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.
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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 not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.
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The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.
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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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