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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Age: 44 †
Born: 1850
Born: November 13
Died: 1894
Died: December 3
Essayist
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Edinburgh
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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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