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Robert Louis Stevenson

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When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#evil #good #good and evil #human #human beings

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#health #like #lose #miser #spendthrift

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#appears #good #good action #inevitable #mark

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#bread #creature #lives #man #primarily

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#conversation #disputes #long #marriage






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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