All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it… - Robert Louis Stevenson

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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

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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Fifteen men on the dead man's chest — Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil had done for the rest — Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

This is a handy cove, and a pleasant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate?

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. - Robert Louis Stevenson

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