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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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Edinburgh
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Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Luis Stivensoni
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Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Lui Stivenson
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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