Robert Louis Stevenson
Virginibus Puerisque III: On Falling in Love
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Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.
VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE III: On falling in love: "Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
THERE is only one event in life which really astonishes a man and startles him out of his prepared opinions. Everything else befalls him very much as he expected.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Rudyard Kipling
Booker T. Washington
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Stefan Zweig
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