More from Robert Louis Stevenson

  1. I have thus played the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to Sir Thomas Browne, to Defoe, to Hawthorne, to Montaigne, to Baud…
  2. Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is - nor yet so good a Christian.
  3. Am I no a bonny fighter?
  4. Nothing like a little judicious levity.
  5. In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.
  6. Do you know what the Governor of South Carolina said to the Governor of North Carolina? It's a long time between drinks, observed that powe…
  7. 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.
  8. Ice and iron cannot be welded.

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