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I hate to write, but I love to have written.
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
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Robert Luis Stivensoni
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Robert Loui Sitivensin
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You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy.
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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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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
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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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Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.
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Make up your mind to be happy.
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You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!
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This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.
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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 are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape.
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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
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Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.
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If he be Mr. Hyde he had thought, I shall be Mr. Seek.
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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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In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.
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Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.
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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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Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.
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