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Robert Louis Stevenson

(1850–1894) Short Story Writer United Kingdom

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Robert Louis Stevenson was a short story writer from the United Kingdom, best known for Treasure Island.

Quick Facts About Robert Louis Stevenson

Born: November 13, 1850
Died: December 3, 1894
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Short Story Writer
Notable works: Treasure Island
Known for: Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Prince Otto, Kidnapped, A Child's Garden of Verses
Spouse: Fanny Stevenson

About Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for the novels Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and Kidnapped (1886) and for the poetry collection A Child's Garden of Verses (1885).

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson · Page 24

To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy…

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Absence

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“seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins”

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“Come back? There is no coming back, young ladies, on the impetuous stream of life.”

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Life

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There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

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Foreign lands

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A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.

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Blackness

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We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it…

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Charity

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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

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Pleasant

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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good:…

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Character

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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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Bills

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“It is nothing to get wet; but the misery of these individual pricks of cold all over my body at the same…

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Time

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“We now lay in towns, where nobody troubled us with questions; we had floated into civilised life, where people pass without salutation. ”

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Life

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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Silence

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“A moment before I had been safe of all men's respect, wealthy, beloved - the cloth laying for me in the dining…

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Dining room

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“Let the sofa be mountains, the carpet be sea, There I'll establish a city for me.”

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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

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Enemy

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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…

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Disloyal

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“I do not suppose that, when a drunkard reasons with himself upon his vice, he is once out of five hundred times…

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Time

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Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.

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Domination

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Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

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Growth

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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

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Fame

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To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

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Fear

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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…

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I smoke a pipe abroad, because To all cigars I much prefer it, And as I scorn you social laws, My choice…

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Choices

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[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty…

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Builder

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Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

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Achievement

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