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Robert Louis Stevenson (109)

Birth:	13th November, 1850
Death:	3rd December, 1894
Nationality:	Scottish
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Poet

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Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

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• Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

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• In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

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• Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

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• Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

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• Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

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• Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

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• Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

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• You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

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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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• Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

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• To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

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• It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

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• Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

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• 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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• It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

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• You can kill the body but not the spirit.

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• 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.

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• You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

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• Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

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• I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.

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