"I have done my fiddling so long under……" — Robert Louis Stevenson
"I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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364 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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