Quote#Nature
I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of…
Quote byRobert Louis Stevenson · 1850–1894
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Story of the Door..
English (original)
I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment. You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden and the family have to change their name.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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