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Robert Louis Stevenson

"To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life."

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Robert Louis Stevenson
"Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shoreWhere neither piping bird nor peeping dawnDisturbs the eternal sleep,But in the stillness far withdrawnOur dreamless rest for evermore we keep."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
"I believe you to be strictly honorable.'He thoughtfully emptied his cup. 'I wish I could add you were intelligent,' he went on, knocking on his head with his knuckles."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
"For marriage is like life in this-that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
"I crossed the yard, wherein the constellations looked down upon me, I could have thought, with wonder, the first creature of that sort that their unsleeping vigilance had yet disclosed to them; I stole through the corridors, a stranger in my own house; and coming to my room, I saw for the first time the appearance of Edward Hyde."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
"The cruellest lies are often told in silence."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
"The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
"Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
"The obscurest epoch is today."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
"It is very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink With little children saying grace In every Christian kind of place."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
"You must suffer me to go my own dark way."
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