Robert Louis Stevenson

Puzzles

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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson?

  • → Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
  • → Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
  • → In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
  • → He's been spoiled 'til salt won't save him.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson.

  • → There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.
  • → It must be sad to outlive aught we love.
  • → The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
  • → Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson.

  • → The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
  • → A wounded tyrant bleeds with other people's blood.
  • → Every ambitious would-be empire clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie, and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it!
  • → He talked with more claret than clarity.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson. Which one?

  • → Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
  • → Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
  • → There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
  • → Gossip is nature's telephone.
  
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• Which one of these belongs to Robert Louis Stevenson?

  • → I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
  • → Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
  • → You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.
  • → Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
  
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• Can you identify the right quote belonging to Robert Louis Stevenson?

  • → Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
  • → To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
  • → There are certain small faults that offset great virtues. There are certain great faults that are forgotten in small virtues.
  • → Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
  
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• Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson.

  • → The future must be constantly summoned from non-existence; the past comes by itself.
  • → You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
  • → A man cannot destroy the savage in him by denying its impulses. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
  • → There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.
  
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• One of the following quotations belongs to Robert Louis Stevenson. Which one?

  • → The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
  • → A good leader can’t get too far ahead of his followers.
  • → Sometimes to remain silent is to lie since silence can be interpreted as assent.
  • → If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
  
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