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When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
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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Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson
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Stivenson
Robert Loui Sitivensin
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After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.
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and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying I am sorry!
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Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.
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To be overwise is to ossify and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.
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