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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses.

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A friend is a present you give yourself.

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For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

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No man is useless while he has a friend.

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Wine is bottled poetry.

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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.

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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

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Everyone lives by selling something.

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A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

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...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.

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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

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Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.

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Quite minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might; to eat with apple tart.

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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

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The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.

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We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

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You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

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