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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical..."

In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.

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Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live. My very life again though cold in death; Come back to me in dreams, that I may give. Pulse for pulse, breath for breath: Speak low, lean low, As long ago, my love, how long ago Christina G. Rossetti
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