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Fear is the strong passion it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

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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