"There is no music like a little river's……" — Robert Louis Stevenson
"There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers."
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364 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
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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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