Robert Louis Stevenson on Birthday
1850–1894 Scotland
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And perhaps this habit of much travel, and the engendering of scattered friendships, may prepare the euthanasia of ancient nations.
The Silverado Squatters (1883)
Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,
Nor a friend to know me;
All I ask, the heaven above
And the road below me.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
It's an owercome sooth fo' age an' youth,
And it brooks wi' nae denial,
That the dearest friends are the auldest friends,
And the young are just on trial.
When an old gentleman waggles his head and says: "Ah, so I thought when I was your age," it is not thought an answer at all, if the young man retorts: "My venerable sir, so I shall most probably think when I am yours." And yet the one is as good as the other.