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Love- what is love? A great and aching heart Wrung hands and silence and a long despair
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
Scotland
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Robert Luis Stivensoni
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Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Lui Stivenson
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There comes an end to all things the most capacious measure is filled at last and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.
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If he be Mr. Hyde he had thought, I shall be Mr. Seek.
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A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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