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Makes Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often…
- To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
- No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it…
- There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles…
- It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of…
- Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?" Deed, and I don't, know" said…
- To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.
- It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.
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