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  1. Robert Louis Stevenson _ Selected Poems

    REQUIEMUnder the wide and starry skyDig the grave and let me lie:Glad did I live and gladly die,And I laid me down with a will.This be the verse you grave for me:
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  2. Robert Louis Stevenson _ Treasure Island

    Ah, there," said Morgan, "that comed of sp'iling Bibles.""That comes--as you call it--of being arrant asses," retorted the doctor.
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  3. Robert Louis Stevenson _ Treasure Island

    The man's tongue is fit to frighten the French. Another fever."Ah, there," said Morgan, "that comed of sp'iling Bibles."That comed--as you call it--of being arrant asses."
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  4. Robert Louis Stevenson _ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll

    The last I think; for, O poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.
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  5. Robert Louis Stevenson _ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll

    O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.
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  6. Robert Louis Stevenson _ Der seltsame Fall des Dr.

    I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again. I bind my honour to you that I am done with him in this world. It is all at an end. And indeed he does not want my help; you do not know him as I do; he is safe, he is quite safe; mark my words, he will never more be heard of. ~Jekyll
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  7. Robert Louis Stevenson _ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll

    I was driven to reflect deeply and inveterately on that hard law of life, which lies at the root of religion and is one of the most plentiful springs of distress. Though so profound a double-dealer, I was in no sense a hypocrite; both sides of me were in dead earnest; I was no more myself when I laid aside restraint and plunged in shame, than when I laboured, in the eye of day, at the futherance of knowledge or the relief of sorrow and suffering.
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  8. Robert Louis Stevenson _ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll

    A moment before I had been safe of all men's respect, wealthy, beloved - the cloth laying for me in the dining room at home; and now I was the common quarry of mankind, hunted, houseless, a known murderer, thrall to the gallows.
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  9. Robert Louis Stevenson _ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll

    You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird {the last you would have thought of} is knocked on the head in his own back garden and the family have to change their name. No sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask.
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  10. Robert Louis Stevenson _ Dr. Jekyll and Mr.

    It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity;
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  11. Robert Louis Stevenson _ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll

    ...with a strong strong glow of courage, drank off the potion.
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  12. Robert Louis Stevenson _ Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes

    Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one and flashes of the other; like the king of the Black Isles, it is half alive and half a monumental marble.
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