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“surprising compound”

A most surprising compound of plain grandeur, sentimental affection, and downright nonsense. — Robert Louis Stevenson on Walt Whitman

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A Strange Lack

“And yet even as I thought the words, I was aware of a strange lack. I could have wished for a companion, to be near me in the starlight, silent and not moving if you like, but ever near and … Continue reading

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Marriage

“Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Whatever Shall We Do?”

Here is what Robert Louis Stevenson had to say about meeting Thomas and Emma Hardy: [He was] a pale, gentle, frightened little man, that one felt an instinctive tenderness for, with a wife — ugly is no word for it! … Continue reading

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