Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

“Sometimes the isle was thick with savages, with whom we fought, sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us, but in all my fancies nothing occurred to me so strange and tragic as our actual adventures.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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“where a faith has been trodden out, we may look for a mean and narrow population.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

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“You can kill the body, Mr. Hands, but not the spirit;”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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“Well, now I tell you, I never seen good come o' goodness yet. Him as strikes first is my fancy; dead men don't bite; them's my views”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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“But you're able to hear, I reckon; leastways, your ears is big enough.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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