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" "I know; I don't care to die either. But when whining mendeth nothing, wherefore whine?
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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