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Memories and Portraits

Memories and Portraits
Robert Louis Stevenson

Memories and Portraits is a collection of essays by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1887.

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“I have thus played the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to Sir Thomas Browne, to Defoe, to Hawthorne, to Montaigne, to Baudelaire and to Obermann. (…) That, like it or not, is the way to learn to write whether I have profited or not, that is the way.”

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Memories and Portraits, ch. IV. A College Magazine (1887).

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