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Robert Louis Stevenson

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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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Wine is bottled poetry.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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As my mother said "This is the heaviest affliction that has ever befallen me". Short story collections
New Arabian Nights (1882)
More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885); co-written with Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson
The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887); contains 6 stories. Stephen in turn would introduce him to a more important friend.

His works have been admired by many other writers including Jorge Luis Borges Ernest Hemingway Rudyard Kipling Marcel Schwob Vladimir NabokovJ. A literary celebrity during his lifetime Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. His most famous works are Treasure Island Kidnapped and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

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