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“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Novelist and essayist · 1850 – 1894
Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Plagued by ill health, he travelled restlessly and settled at last in Samoa, where he died at forty-four.
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