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Robert Louis Stevenson

(1850 – 1894) Full name: Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson. A Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, he now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers. His most famous works are "Treasure Island", "Kidnapped", and "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde".

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.