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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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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Robert Luis Stivensoni
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Robert Loui Sitivensin
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Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.
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