It is the worst of all quaint and of all cheap ways of life… - Robert Louis Stevenson

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It is the worst of all quaint and of all cheap ways of life that they bring us at last to the pinch of some humiliation.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a representative of Neo-romanticism.

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Alternative Names: Robert Luis Stivensoni • Shih-ti-wen-sheng • Stivenson • Robert Loui Sitivensin • Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson • Robert Lui Stivenson • RL Stivenson • RL Stevenson • RLS • R. L. Stevenson • Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson

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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

In winter I get up at night,
and dress by yellow candlelight,
In summer, quite the other day,
I have to go to bed by day

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