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Familiar Studies of Men and Books Quotes

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathise; and so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

Source:Chapter 8. Charles of Orleans (1876), Page 237
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Robert Louis Stevenson (Familiar Studies of Men and Books Quotes)
  • Book: Familiar Studies of Men and Books
  • Writer: Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Genre: Essays
  • Published: 1882
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