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Robert Louis Stevenson

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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.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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I've a grand memory for forgetting.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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The world has no room for cowards.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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Nothing like a little judicious levity.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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About Robert Louis Stevenson

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Did you know about Robert Louis Stevenson?

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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