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Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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 Lewis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Luis Stivensoni
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Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.
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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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The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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If he be Mr. Hyde he had thought, I shall be Mr. Seek.
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