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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
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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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that sips.
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