More from Robert Louis Stevenson

  1. 'What is the Black Spot, Captain?' 'That's a summons, mate.'
  2. Many's a long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted mostly.
  3. Doctors is all swabs...and that doctor there, why, what do he know about seafaring men? I been in places hot as pitch, and mates dropping r…
  4. Them that die will be the lucky ones!
  5. Fifteen men on the dead man's chest - Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest - Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of …
  6. In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day.
  7. To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
  8. A child should always say what's true And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table; At least as far as he is able.

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