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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
About Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', and 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'.
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November 13, 1850, Edinburgh, Scotland
Died:
December 3, 1894, Vailima, Samoa
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