At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion. — Robert Louis Stevenson
At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion. — Robert Louis Stevenson
At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion. — Robert Louis Stevenson
At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion. — Robert Louis Stevenson
At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion. — Robert Louis Stevenson
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At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion.

— Robert Louis Stevenson
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