To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Familiar Studies of Men and Books. London: Chatto & Windus, 1882.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Familiar Studies of Men and Books. London: Chatto & Windus, 1882.
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