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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

Source:The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887), Story 2. Will O' The Mill (1877), Page 108
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  • Name: Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Profession: Writer, Novelist, Essayist
  • Born: November 13, 1850 - December 3, 1894
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