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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Robert Louis Stevenson
Age: 44 †
Born: 1850
Born: November 13
Died: 1894
Died: December 3
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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