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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
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By the time a man gets into the seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
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We're getting hit with more larcenies and home invasions and we have to get more people on the road to stop it, ... We have to adjust the shortages created by the budget cuts and hiring freeze.
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We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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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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No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable.
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Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.
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Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it
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Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that
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The world is so full of a number of things man sure should all be as happy as kings