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By Robert Louis Stevenson
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
- Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (first edition), 1881 · "El Dorado", p. 185 (printed page number seen on the page image)
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- Internet Archive (scan of the first edition, London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881)
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From "El Dorado", an essay in Robert Louis Stevenson's Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881). The essayist speaks.