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The Master of Ballantrae

The Master of Ballantrae
Robert Louis Stevenson

The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale is a book by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, focusing upon the conflict between two brothers, Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745. He worked on the book in Tautira after his health was restored.

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“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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“Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book The Master of Ballantrae

The Master of Ballantrae, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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