{"author":"Robert Louis Stevenson","author_id":"Robert+Louis+Stevenson","total_quotes":204,"quotes":[{"text":"For my part  I travel not to go anywhere  but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.","author":"Robert Louis Stevenson","tags":["travel","travellers"],"id":704,"author_id":"Robert+Louis+Stevenson"},{"text":"Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.","author":"Robert Louis Stevenson","tags":["people","mediocrity "],"id":5829,"author_id":"Robert+Louis+Stevenson"},{"text":"Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity,.","author":"Robert Louis Stevenson","tags":["spirit","truth","veracity"],"id":9755,"author_id":"Robert+Louis+Stevenson"},{"text":"And then, all of a sudden, he stopped, and his jaw dropped as though he had remembered something.'The score!' he burst out. 'Three goes o' rum! Why, shiver my timbers, if I hadn't forgotten my score!'And, falling on a bench, he laughed until the tears ran down his cheeks. I could not help joining; and we laughed together, peal after peal, until the tavern rang again.","author":"Robert Louis Stevenson","tags":["humour","long-john-silver","treasure-island"],"id":9805,"author_id":"Robert+Louis+Stevenson"},{"text":"I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.","author":"Robert Louis Stevenson","tags":["books","inspirational","on-writing","reading"],"id":11979,"author_id":"Robert+Louis+Stevenson"},{"text":"Three,' reckoned the captain, 'ourselves make seven, counting Hawkins, here. Now, about honest hands?'Most likely Trelawney's own men,' said the doctor; 'those he had picked up for himself, before he lit on Silver.'Nay,' replied the squire. 'Hands was one of mine.'I did think I could have trusted Hands,' added the captain.","author":"Robert Louis Stevenson","tags":["humor","humour","pirates","pun","wit","wordplay"],"id":12726,"author_id":"Robert+Louis+Stevenson"},{"text":"Extreme busyness  whether at school  or college  kirk or market  is a symptom of deficient vitality  and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.","author":"Robert Louis Stevenson","tags":["idleness"],"id":13318,"author_id":"Robert+Louis+Stevenson"},{"text":"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.","author":"Robert Louis Stevenson","tags":["courage","friends","mind "],"id":16379,"author_id":"Robert+Louis+Stevenson"},{"text":"A writer can live by his writing. If not so luxuriously as by other trades, then less luxuriously. The nature of the work he does all day will more affect his happiness than the quality of his dinner at night. Whatever be your calling, and however much it brings you in the year, you could still, you know, get more by cheating. We all suffer ourselves to be too much concerned about a little poverty; but such considerations should not move us in the choice of that which is to be the business and justification of so great a portion of our lives; and like the missionary, the patriot, or the philosopher, we should all choose that poor and brave career in which we can do the most and best for mankind.","author":"Robert Louis Stevenson","tags":["career","mankind","poverty","writer","writing"],"id":18087,"author_id":"Robert+Louis+Stevenson"},{"text":"Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.","author":"Robert Louis Stevenson","tags":["feminism","gender-differences","gender-performance","gender-roles"],"id":18610,"author_id":"Robert+Louis+Stevenson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":204,"pages":21,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}