"It is one of the worst things of……" — Robert Louis Stevenson
"It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken."
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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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