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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
Source:
The Wrecker (1892), Chapter V. In which I am down on my Luck in Paris, Page 78
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Writer, Novelist, Essayist
Born:
November 13, 1850 - December 3, 1894
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