"It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella……" — Robert Louis Stevenson

It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp… - Robert Louis Stevenson

"It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with."

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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