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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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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.

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

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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

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

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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

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Writer

Born: November 13th, 1850

Died: December 3rd, 1894

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