“Time passes quickly with lovers.”

—  Robert Louis Stevenson, book The Pavilion on the Links

The Pavilion on the Links, ch. V.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)

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

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