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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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Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.
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The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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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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The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.
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If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife
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Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.
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The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in 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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So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.
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Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.
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