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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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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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
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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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Painfully
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Position
Talking
Cannot
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Mended
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Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.
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Everything is true only the opposite is true too you must believe both equally or be damned.
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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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The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
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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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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
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