Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevensonwas a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses...
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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
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There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy
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Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself
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If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him.
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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.
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To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean
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An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate
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The cruellest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.