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Sit loosely in the saddle.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Age: 44 †
Born: 1850
Born: November 13
Died: 1894
Died: December 3
Essayist
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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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.
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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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A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.
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A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.
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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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They say cowardice is infectious but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.
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