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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations.
1989
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NUMBER:
133
AUTHOR:
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94)
QUOTATION:
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
ATTRIBUTION:
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON,
“An Apology for Idlers,”
Virginibus Puerisque and Later Essays,
p. 80 (1969). Written between 1874–1879.
SUBJECTS:
Books
WORKS:
Robert Louis Stevenson Collection
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