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“Like all men is distress,Gideon decided to do what Napoleon, what Shakespeare, what Alexander the Great would have done. There remained only the minor question, what is that?” quote by Robert Louis Stevenson Lloyd Osbourne — Download Open image

““Like all men is distress,Gideon decided to do what Napoleon, what Shakespeare, what Alexander the Great would have done. There remained only the minor question, what is that?””

Robert Louis Stevenson Lloyd Osbourne

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