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And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.
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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And this shall be for music when no one else is near, The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear! That only I remember, that only you admire, Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.
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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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Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.
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We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.
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My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring
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Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
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