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Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers Quotes

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have.

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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