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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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Edinburgh
Scotland
Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Luis Stivensoni
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Stivenson
Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Lui Stivenson
RL Stivenson
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Youth now flees on feathered foot.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone.... Freedom is of the essence, because you should be able to stop and go on and follow this way or that as the freak takes you.... There should be no cackle of voices at your elbow to jar on the meditative silence of the morning.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.
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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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A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?
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It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.
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The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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They say cowardice is infectious but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.
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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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The essence of love is kindness.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.
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And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.
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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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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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I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.
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