robertlouisstevenson

I, liberated, look abroad on life, love, and distress, and dusty travelling ways. I am a writer, as you well know.

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Today, reborn. Thank you for remembering.

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The weather is incredible; my heart sings; my health satisfies even my wife. I did jolly well right to come after all...

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But the real reason you have been more in my mind than usual is because of ...

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I am not altogether unconscious of the great debt of gratitude I owe you.

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I am greatly better, gained flesh, strength, spirits; eat well, walk a good deal, and do some work without fatigue. I am off the sick list.

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Well, well-- Scots language found to have 421 words for snow: http://t.co/Mq3bC2WBb4

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. http://t.co/83FU3uA20g

[National Galleries of Scotland @NatGalleriesSco]

Nerli did this pensive portrait of 'Jekyll and Hyde' author Robert Louis Stevenson in 1882 http://t.co/10AEOec78O

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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

[The OED @OED]

The current first example given in the OED is from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. (2/2) #TalkLikeAPirateDay

[R.L. Stevenson @RLSte]

@wildflowerfever Aha! But RLS was anything but xenophobic. He lived in Samoa at the end of his life and was a great supporter of the Samoans

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The dramatic author has to paint his beaches with real sand...

[R.L. Stevenson @RLSte]

Robert Louis Stevenson features in The Great Tapestry of Scotland via @AilishSinclair ”

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And surely of all smells in the world, the smell of trees is the sweetest and most fortifying.

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No more wielding of the ugly cudgel; no more flailing with an aching arm; no more broadsword exercise, but a discreet and gentlemanly fence.

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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

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

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You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.