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It takes hard writing to make easy reading.
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 Luis Stivensoni
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Stivenson
Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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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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Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.
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I wish these flies would piss off.
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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 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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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.
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Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.
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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Sit loosely in the saddle.
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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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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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Some people swallow the universe like a pill they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
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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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We do not go to cowards for tender dealing there is nothing so cruel as panic the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.
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