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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Scottish novelist and poet (1850-1894)

Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a representative of Neo-romanticism.

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Alternative Names: Robert Luis Stivensoni • Shih-ti-wen-sheng • Stivenson • Robert Loui Sitivensin • Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson • Robert Lui Stivenson • RL Stivenson • RL Stevenson • RLS • R. L. Stevenson • Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson

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Similar: Charles Dickens 73.9% John Buchan 72.2% John Steinbeck 71.7% Samuel Johnson 70.4% Hilaire Belloc 70.1% George Eliot 70.1% Walter Scott 70.0% Evelyn Waugh 70.0% Charles Lamb 69.9% Mark Twain 69.7%
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