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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes:

Ocupation: Novelist

Life: November 13, 1850 - December 3, 1894

Birthday: November 13

Death: December 3

As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of all work and no play; until here they are at forty, with a listless attention, a mind vacant of all material of amusement, and not one thought to rub against another, while they wait for the train.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

source: Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4581, e-artnow

topic: Men, Play, Waiting, All Work And No Play, Vacant

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