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Robert Louis Stevenson

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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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Everyone lives by selling something.


— 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


#clock #during #fortune #frightened #go

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#asleep #be thankful #eyes #fallen #forgets

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#forbear #friends #gaiety #give #grace

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


#cannot #fight #must #now #out

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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.


— 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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