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Famous Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson, the Scottish novelist, essayist, and poet was born on November 4, 1850 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Some of his most famous novels are, 'Treasure Island', 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', and 'Kidnapped'. Robert Louis Stevenson died in Samoa on December 3, 1894.

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There is nothing more certain than that age and youth are are right, except perhaps that both are wrong.

Vamty dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

If we take matrimony at its lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognized by the police.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it they are wrong.

If they only married when they fell in love most people would die unwed.

Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.

I have always suspected public taste to be a mongrel product, out of affectation by dogmatism.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

If God would give thee grace to see yoursel' the way that ithers see ye, ye would throw your dinner up.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords.

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