Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis 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...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth13 November 1850
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.