Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a migh… - Robert Louis Stevenson

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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

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

Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul.

It is the worst of all quaint and of all cheap ways of life that they bring us at last to the pinch of some humiliation.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. - Robert Louis Stevenson

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