"He is not dead, this friend; not dead,……" — Robert Louis Stevenson
"He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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364 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
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