"I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to……" — Robert Louis Stevenson
"I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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364 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
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