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Journalist, Schriftsteller, veröffentlichte 1883 den Roman "Die Schatzinsel", der zu einem Klassiker der Jugendliteratur wurde (Schottland, 1850 - 1894).

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson wäre heute 174 Jahre, 2 Monate, 29 Tage oder 63.643 Tage alt.

Geboren am 13.11.1850 in Edinburgh
Gestorben am 03.12.1894 in Westsamoa
Sternzeichen: ♏ Skorpion

• In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

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• In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.

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• In the highlands, in the country places, Where the old plain men have rosy faces, And the young fair maidens Quiet eyes.

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• In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer, quite the other way, - I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me in the street.

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• Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

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• It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

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• It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

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• It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

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• It's a long time between drinks.

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• Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke.

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• Let the blow fall soon or late, Let what will be o'er me; Give the face of earth around And the road before me. Wealth I seek not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

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• Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

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• Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords.

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• Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly.

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• Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.

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• Marriage is like life in this-that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

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• Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

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• Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself nowhere. He can buy a library or visit the whole world, but perhaps has neither patience to read nor intelligence to see . . . The purse may be full and the heart empty. He may have gained the world and lost himself; and with all his wealth around him . . . he may live as blank a life as any tattered ditcher.

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• Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.

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• Nothing like a little judicious levity.

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