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Robert Louis Stevenson

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An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".


— Robert Louis Stevenson


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Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#motivational #inspirational

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#aim #finding #fortune #only #worth

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#inspiration #inspirational

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#nature

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#fear #courage

Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#love #love

and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#change

Marriage is a friendship recognized by the police.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#friendship

A good conscience is eight parts of courage.


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#courage #courage






About Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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