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Robert Louis Stevenson

Read through the most famous quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson




I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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No man is useless while he has a friend.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.


— 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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