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It is always a bad sign when the lower classes laugh: their taste in humour is both poor and sinister; — Robert Louis Stevenson

Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Watch for the ace of spades, which is the sign of death, and the ace of clubs, which designates the official of the night. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Thems that die'll be the lucky ones. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The veil of self-indulgence was rent from head to foot. I saw my life as a whole. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant — Robert Louis Stevenson

Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest — Robert Louis Stevenson

The best things in life are nearest, breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet. — Robert Louis Stevenson

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse. — Robert Louis Stevenson

It was a bitter cold winter, with long, hard frosts and heavy gales; — Robert Louis Stevenson

I hate to write, but I love to have written. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde — Robert Louis Stevenson

You must suffer me to go my own dark way. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. — Robert Louis Stevenson

A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson. — Robert Louis Stevenson

man is not truly one, but two — Robert Louis Stevenson

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye. — Robert Louis Stevenson

He was breaking his fast on white wine and raw onions, in order to keep up the character of martyr, I conclude. — Robert Louis Stevenson

It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. — Robert Louis Stevenson

And 'Oh man!' quo he, 'am I no a bonny fighter? — Robert Louis Stevenson

He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement? — Robert Louis Stevenson

Try as I like to find the way, I never can get back by day, Nor can remember plain and clear The curious music that I hear. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The man who has forgotten to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. Robert Louis Stevenson — Linda Dillow

15 men on the dead mans chest - yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum — Robert Louis Stevenson

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Take care of each other. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Idleness does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formualries of the ruling class. — Robert Louis Stevenson

If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. — Robert Louis Stevenson

His affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer — Robert Louis Stevenson

Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! — Robert Louis Stevenson

When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life. — Robert Louis Stevenson

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion. — Robert Louis Stevenson

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. — Robert Louis Stevenson

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Every man has a sane spot somewhere. — Robert Louis Stevenson

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people. — Robert Louis Stevenson

about as emotional as a bagpipe. — Robert Louis Stevenson

As I looked there came, I thought a change - he seemed to swell - his face became suddenly black and the features seemed to melt and alter ... — Robert Louis Stevenson

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. — Robert Louis Stevenson

There is a romance about all those who are abroad in the black hours. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask." "A — Robert Louis Stevenson

The spirit of delight comes in small ways. — Robert Louis Stevenson

You may lay to that. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I know what happiness is, for I have done good work. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe. — Robert Louis Stevenson

In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson. — Francine Pascal

The essence of love is kindness. — Robert Louis Stevenson

How that personage haunted my dreams, I need scarcely tell you. — Robert Louis Stevenson

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right. — Robert Louis Stevenson

the doctor, "that if you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of — Robert Louis Stevenson

If thy morals make thee dreary, depend upon it they are wrong — Robert Louis Stevenson

One more step, Mr. Hands," said I, "and I'll blow your brains out! Dead men don't bite, you know," I added with a chuckle. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Baldric; but he made a remark that seems worthy of record. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I awoke on the fifth morning with a brightness of anticipation that seemed to challenge fate. — Robert Louis Stevenson

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. — Robert Louis Stevenson

but you're as smart as paint. — Robert Louis Stevenson

There is but one art, to omit. — Robert Louis Stevenson

ChilYou can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. — Robert Louis Stevenson

If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I. — Robert Louis Stevenson

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire. — Robert Louis Stevenson

It is a good thing to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy — Robert Louis Stevenson

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends? — Robert Louis Stevenson

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The secret to a happiness is a small ego. And a big wallet. Good wine helps, too. But that's not really a secret, is it? — Robert Louis Stevenson

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Look out for squalls when you find it, and you will readily believe how little taste I found — Robert Louis Stevenson

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. — Robert Louis Stevenson

All day he hung round the cove or upon the cliffs with a brass telescope; — Robert Louis Stevenson

A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student. — Robert Louis Stevenson

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others ... — Robert Louis Stevenson

Sank or plundered. The sums are the scoundrel's share, — Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens. — Robert Louis Stevenson

It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger. — Robert Louis Stevenson

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires. — Robert Louis Stevenson

To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The HISPANIOLA still lay where she had anchored; but, sure enough, there was the Jolly Roger
the black flag of piracy
flying from her peak. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I felt no repugnance- I knew I was wicked, ten times more wicked, and that thought both braced and delighted me. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I've a grand memory for forgetting, — Robert Louis Stevenson