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Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Age: 44 †
Born: 1850
Born: November 13
Died: 1894
Died: December 3
Essayist
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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
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-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.
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To be overwise is to ossify and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.
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Sing a song of seasons something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.
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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro, A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain, The passion of the gale.
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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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