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Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers Quotes

The time would fail me if I were to recite all the big names in history whose exploits are perfectly irrational and even shocking to the business mind.

Source:Essay 2. Crabbed Age and Youth (1878), Page 90
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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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