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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Category:
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Date of Birth:
November 13, 1850
Date of Death:
December 3, 1894
Nationality:
Scottish
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