Louis Stevenson State

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    To make our idea of morality centre on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

    The pleasant land of counterpane.
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

    Away down the river,
    A hundred miles or more,
    Other little children
    Shall bring my boats ashore.
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

    A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)