It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us but not impossible that it may respect or Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize, so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

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