“Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is — nor yet so good a Christian.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson, book The Master of Ballantrae

The Master of Ballantrae. Mr. Mackellar's Journey (1889).

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Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer 1850–1894

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