816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
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His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.
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Youth now flees on feathered foot.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.
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The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.
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Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.
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