Scottish - Writer | November 13, 1850 - December 3, 1894
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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I've a grand memory for forgetting.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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