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“I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“The obscurest epoch is to-day.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“Captain, down where I come from we dearly love our whiskey, but we don’t drink with a man unless we respect him.”
—James Poe, U.S. screenwriter, and Based On Play. Robert Aldrich. Sergeant Tolliver (Buddy Ebsen)
“Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)