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Memories and Portraits Quotes

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy. - Robert Louis Stevenson (Memories and Portraits Quotes)

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

Source:Chapter III. Old Morality, Page 48
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Robert Louis Stevenson (Memories and Portraits Quotes)
  • Book: Memories and Portraits
  • Writer: Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Genre: Essays
  • Published: 1887
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