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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

Scottish Writer

Born: Nov 13, 1850

Died: Dec 3, 1894

Good Happy Life Man World You

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A friend is a gift you give yourself. Robert Louis Stevenson

Friendship You Yourself Gift Give Friend

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. Robert Louis Stevenson

Down Consequences Everyone Later Sooner Sooner Or Later Banquet

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. Robert Louis Stevenson

Success Man Laughed Well Often Loved Much Who Lived

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. Robert Louis Stevenson

Life Good Matter Holding Well Hand Poor Cards Playing

Wine is bottled poetry. Robert Louis Stevenson

Wine Poetry Bottled

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

Love You Giving Give Never Without Loving

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

Nature Quality Weary Old Men Beauty Trees Changes Air Claim Spirit Something Makes Forest Hearts Wonderfully Subtle Much

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. Robert Louis Stevenson

Great Travel Affair Go Sake Move Anywhere

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. Robert Louis Stevenson

Best Travel World Our Wilderness Find Friend Travelers Travels Honest

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

Happy World Kings Sure Should Full Things Number

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. Robert Louis Stevenson

Best Legal Lawyer Compromise Cheapest

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. Robert Louis Stevenson

You Will Long Before Think Tell Dogs Any Heaven Us

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

Down Consequences Everybody Late Soon Banquet

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. Robert Louis Stevenson

Happy World Benefits Duty Anonymous Sow Being Being Happy Much

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. Robert Louis Stevenson

Politics Thought Preparation Only Perhaps Which Profession Necessary

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. Robert Louis Stevenson

Life Become Only Becoming End Capable

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. Robert Louis Stevenson

Life Good Business Our Spirits Fail Continue Succeed

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. Robert Louis Stevenson

Happy Habit Freed Outward Enables Conditions Domination Being Being Happy Largely

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it. Robert Louis Stevenson

Parliament Know Ashamed

No man is useless while he has a friend. Robert Louis Stevenson

Man He Friend While Useless

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