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“Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.”

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Book:The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. III (1887-1891)

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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. III (1887-1891)

This volume includes a comprehensive selection of letters from the renowned author Robert Louis Stevenson, spanning the final years of his life. The letters offer insights into his personal life, literary work, and thoughts on various subjects, providing a unique glimpse into the mind of one of the most influential writers of the 19th century. 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

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“Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.”

People Use Wisdom Pockets Mediocrity Ambitious Mediocre Discouraging Console

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.”

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Book:Robert Louis Stevenson: His Best Pacific Writings

Source: Robert Louis Stevenson: His Best Pacific Writings

“The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands.”

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“Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.”

“You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.”

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

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

“When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.”

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Book:RLS: Stevenson's Letters to Charles Baxter

Source: RLS: Stevenson's Letters to Charles Baxter

“The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.”

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Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.”

Men Love May Faces Spirit Fall Behinds Impossible Respect Falling In Love Portraits Posterity

Book:Virginibus Puerisque

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“There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.”

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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

“There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.”

Years Doe Form Progress Years Ago Essence Transcendentalism

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson