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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.

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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I smoke a pipe abroad, because To all cigars I much prefer it, And as I scorn you social laws, My choice has nothing to deter it.
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The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.
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