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“Children, you are very little,
And your bones are very brittle.”

Good and Bad Children, st. 1.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)

“Be it granted me to behold you again in dying,
Hills of home!”

No. XLV, S.R. Crockett.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)

“There is but one art, to omit.”

As cited in The Harper Book of Quotations, Revised Edition (1993), Ed. R. Fitzhenry, HarperCollins, p. 498 : ISBN 0062732137, 9780062732132

“Pieces of eight, pieces of eight, pieces of eight!”

Source: Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 10, The Voyage.

“Am I no a bonny fighter?”

Kidnapped, ch. 10 (1886).

“A woman can earn her pardon for a good year of disobedience by a single adroit submission.”

The Rajah's Diamond, Story of the Bandbox.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)

“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for practical existence.”

A Lodging for the Night.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)

“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.”

Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)

“A woman loves to be obeyed at first, although afterwards she finds her pleasure in obeying.”

The Suicide Club, Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)

“The imagination loves to trifle with what is not.”

The Sea Fogs
The Silverado Squatters (1883)

“Sanity itself is a kind of convention.”

The Hunter’s Family
The Silverado Squatters (1883)