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Other Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Take care of each other.
- Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought…
- Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.
- Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
- When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with…
- 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.
- Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear…
- In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way I have to go to bed by…
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