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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Virginibus Puerisque · 1881
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Topic
The human conditionInevitability of death
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Essay
Time
1881
Person
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Current citation
Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Crabbed Age and Youth." Essays I: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
Original citation
Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Crabbed Age and Youth." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881, ch. 2.

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