About Robert Louis Stevenson
1850 – 1894
Scottish novelist and essayist, author of "Treasure Island" and "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde".
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“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.”
“Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.”
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”