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Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers Quotes

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Source:Essay 1. Virginibus Puerisque IV: The Truth of Intercourse (1879), Page 70
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Robert Louis Stevenson (Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers Quotes)
  • Book: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers
  • Writer: Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Genre: Essays
  • Published: 1881
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