"If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wr… - Robert Louis Stevenson

"If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people."

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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