Robert Louis Stevenson quote: Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of ...

Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one and flashes of the other; like the king of the Black Isles, it is half alive and half a monumental ...

~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~

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