"Wherever we are, it is but a stage……" — Robert Louis Stevenson
"Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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364 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
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