To make our idea of morality centre on forbidden acts is to… - Robert Louis Stevenson

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To make our idea of morality centre on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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I have observed there are no persons so far away as those who are both married and estranged, so that they seem out of ear-shot or to have no common tongue.

Let anyone speak long enough, he will get believers.

In winter I get up at night,
and dress by yellow candlelight,
In summer, quite the other day,
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