"Night is a dead monotonous period under a……" — Robert Louis Stevenson
"Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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364 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
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