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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes: No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.
         

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.


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