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Virginibus Puerisque III: On Falling in Love

By: Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrated by: Ray Ritchie
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Summary

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.

VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE III: On falling in love: "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" There is only one event in life which really astonishes a man and startles him out of his prepared opinions. Everything else befalls him very much as he expected.

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