Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

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• Robert Louis Stevenson:

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  Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

• Robert Louis Stevenson:

  We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

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  Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of

• Robert Louis Stevenson:

  The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-

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  Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

• Robert Louis Stevenson:

  Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

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  When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, a

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  Wine is bottled poetry.

• Robert Louis Stevenson:

  Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mi