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Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers Quotes
To equip a dull, respectable person with wings would be but to make a parody of an angel.
Source:
Essay 2. Crabbed Age and Youth (1878), Page 111
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Book:
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers
Writer:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Genre:
Essays
Published:
1881
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