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Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers Quotes

An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

Source:Essay 6. El Dorado (1878), Page 185
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Robert Louis Stevenson (Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers Quotes)
  • Book: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers
  • Writer: Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Genre: Essays
  • Published: 1881
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