“Though the coming of the day is still the most inspiriting, yet day's departure, also, and the return of night refresh, renew, and quiet us; and in the pastures of the dusk we stand, like cattle, exulting in the absence of the load.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson , book The Silverado Squatters

Toils And Pleasures.
The Silverado Squatters (1883)

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

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