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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, and poet best known for *Treasure Island*, *Kidnapped*, and *Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde*. A masterful storyteller with a gift for vivid prose, Stevenson's adventure tales and psychological fiction have entertained readers for well over a century.

“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.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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All Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Business

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Best

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Love

“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Travel

“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Motivational

“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

Great

“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Good

“Wine is bottled poetry.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Poetry

“The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Truth

“The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Love

“Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Inspirational

“Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Friendship

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Alone

“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Life

“Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Age

“It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Gardening

“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.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Wisdom

“Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage