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Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.
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
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Robert Loui Sitivensin
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There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?
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Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.
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To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
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In the other gardens And all up the vale, From the autumn bonfies See the smoke trail! Pleasant summer over And all the summer flowers, The red fire blazes, the grey smoke towers. Sing a song of seasons! Something bright in all, Flowers in the summer Fires in the fall!
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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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Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces.
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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge of sense and that impression of mystic strangeness which otherwise passes out of life with the coming of years but the sight of a loved face is what renews a man's character from the fountain upwards.
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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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They say cowardice is infectious but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
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It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone.
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I hate to write, but I love to have written.
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