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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/6969/">Quotes by <em>Stevenson, Robert Louis</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13 1850 - December 3 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was the man who "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins", as G. K. Chesterton put it. He was also greatly admired by many authors such as Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov and others. Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the canon. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"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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"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive."

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"There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy."

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"There is but one art, to omit."

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"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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"Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits."

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"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."

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"A friend is a present you give to yourself."

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"No man is useless while he has a friend."

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"The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all."

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