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The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.
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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Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Luis Stivensoni
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Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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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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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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They say cowardice is infectious but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.
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We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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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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Youth now flees on feathered foot.
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The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.
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Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
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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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But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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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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