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“To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.”

Book:Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

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Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

This annotated edition brings together a diverse array of personal narratives, profiles, and scholarly essays, offering readers a rich tapestry of human experiences and insights. more

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was a 19th-century Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. His works are characterized by adventure and romance, with his most famous novels being 'Treasure Island' and 'The Adventure of the Treasure Island'. Stevenson's works have been beloved by readers and have had a profound impact on literature. more

“To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage.”

Ifs Should Years Firsts Wells Has Beens Whole Use Views India Twenties London Setting Ships Settings Prophet Score Forty Sail Captains Wiser Voyages Port Deck Brat Thames

Book:The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays

Source: The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays

“If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.”

Ifs Knows Men Looks Journey Look Up Bottles Thieves Sooner Or Later Extravagance Inns

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong.”

May Age Certain Sides Youth

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)

“Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for a moment venture to hint that it was a matter of taste; but I think I will go as far as this: that if a position is admittedly unkind, uncomfortable, unnecessary, and superfluously useless, although it were as respectableasthe Church of England, the sooner a man is out of it, the better for himself, and all concerned.”

“Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.”

Men Light Steps Graves Variables Awfulness

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with the stars to see, Bread I dip in the river There's the life for a man like me, There's the life for ever.”

Men Giving Heaven Stars Bed Rivers Bread Like Me Dip Jolly

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw your means of subsistence. I sometimes wonder how many people of talent are executed in this way every year.”

People Ifs Way Years Mean Sometimes Running Artist Wonder Talent Weapons Notion Starvation Bourgeoisie Subsistence

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“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.”

Men Want Mind Objects He Man Civilization Confession Saddest

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“Youth now flees on feathered foot.”

Feet Youth

Book:The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave. Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.”

May Long Different Lying Support Path Wise Wife Changed Becoming Aspect Graves Idleness Meadows Bachelors

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

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