Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

About Robert Louis Stevenson

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Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for the novels Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and Kidnapped (1886) and for the poetry...

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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

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

—Robert Louis Stevenson

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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passersby to come and love us.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

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The first duty of love is to listen.

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Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

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We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

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When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.

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