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Old Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
- To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet…
- Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for…
- To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised…
- 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…
- Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
- 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…
- Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the…
- O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.
- Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for…
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