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The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.

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
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Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Luis Stivensoni
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Robert Loui Sitivensin
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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