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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
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Robert Lui Stivenson
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The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm sure-- Or else his dear Papa is poor.
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I incline to Cain's heresy, he used to say quaintly: I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.
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To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.
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Sing a song of seasons something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.
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It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. Not to keep hours for a lifetime is... to live forever.
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