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Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers Quotes

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Source:Essay 3. An Apology for Idlers (1877), Page 129
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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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