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.”
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“If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.”
“The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness.”
“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”