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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.: Robert Louis Stevenson
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.: Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.: Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.: Robert Louis Stevenson
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.: Robert Louis Stevenson
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.: Robert Louis Stevenson
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.: Robert Louis Stevenson
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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.: Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.: Robert Louis Stevenson
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.: Robert Louis Stevenson
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.: Robert Louis Stevenson
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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?: Robert Louis Stevenson
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.: Robert Louis Stevenson, An Apology for Idlers, 1874
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the as the duty of being happy.: Robert Louis Stevenson, An Apology for Idlers, 1874
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Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.: Robert Louis Stevenson, Beggars, 1903
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To hold the same views at forty as we did at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.: Robert Louis Stevenson, Crabbed Age and Youth, 1874
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