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We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.
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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Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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