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Robert Louis Stevenson

Born: November 13, 1850

Died: December 3, 1894

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Writer, novelist, poet

Biography: 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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Source/Notes: Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (2009 edition), The Floating Press - ISBN: 9781775415190
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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.”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Source/Notes: Prayer, inscribed on the bronze memorial to Stevenson in St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland
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Robert Louis Stevenson

“He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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“I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Source/Notes: The New Arabian Nights. The Suicide Club (1882)
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“I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Source/Notes: An Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (2009 edition), Wildside Press LLC - ISBN: 9781434455888
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Robert Louis Stevenson

“I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Source/Notes: Treasure Island (with quotations): (2013 edition), Orange Publishing
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Robert Louis Stevenson

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Source/Notes: Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (2009 edition), The Floating Press - ISBN: 9781775415190
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Robert Louis Stevenson

“I've a grand memory for forgetting.”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Source/Notes: Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 (1886)
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Robert Louis Stevenson

“If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Source/Notes: The Works of R.L. Stevenson (1926 edition)
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“It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Source/Notes: The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (1923 edition)
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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.”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Source/Notes: The Biographical Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Familiar studies of men and books (1912 edition)
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“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Source/Notes: Treasure Island (with quotations): (2013 edition), Orange Publishing
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“It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Source/Notes: The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Nineteen Other Tales (2011 edition), Modern Library - ISBN: 9780307796844
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