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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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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Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Luis Stivensoni
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Stivenson
Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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