“Do you know what the Governor of South Carolina said to the Governor of North Carolina? It's a long time between drinks, observed that powerful thinker.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson , book The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box, ch. 8.

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

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