A man who has been three years biting his nails on a desert island can't expect to appear as sane as you and me.
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An ivory-faced and silvery-haired old woman opened the door. She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy but her manners were excellent.Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations to hear the chimes at midnight to see the sunrise in town and country to be converted at a revival to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Make the most of the best and the least of the worst
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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