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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By the time a man gets into the seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
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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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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.
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To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy
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Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate.
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The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a thing to employ
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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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.
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This school has been here since 1904, and has been using the same teaching methodology that they used in 1904, ... Here in 2005. I said that's just ridiculous. We need a change the paradigm, change the way we teach, break out of our comfort zone, and do something new.
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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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If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him.