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Few Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
- He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past…
- The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man…
- Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.
- We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of…
- His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by…
- To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his…
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