"I have been made to learn that the……" — Robert Louis Stevenson
"I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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364 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
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