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Quotes from Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde — Robert Louis Stevenson

1850–1894 Scotland

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

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)

It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity.

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)

'I incline to Cain's heresy,' he used to say quaintly: 'I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.'

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)

Man is not truly one, but truly two.

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)

The doom and burthen of our life is bound forever on man's shoulders, and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Louis Stevenson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.