'I incline to Cain's heresy,' he used to say quaintly: 'I l… - Robert Louis Stevenson

'I incline to Cain's heresy,' he used to say quaintly: 'I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.'

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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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Children, you are very little,
And your bones are very brittle.

But what is the black spot, captain?

You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!

'I incline to Cain's heresy,' he used to say quaintly: 'I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.' - Robert Louis Stevenson

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