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This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Age: 44 †
Born: 1850
Born: November 13
Died: 1894
Died: December 3
Essayist
Novelist
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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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To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do!
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We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.
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O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.
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Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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I smoke a pipe abroad, because To all cigars I much prefer it, And as I scorn you social laws, My choice has nothing to deter it.
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My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by For every night at tea-time and before you take your seat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.
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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying I am sorry!
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Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.
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If this is death, it is easier than life.
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Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.
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My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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It takes hard writing to make easy reading.
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To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
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