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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Robert Louis Stevenson

1877

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "An Apology for Idlers." Cornhill Magazine, July 1877, vol. 36, pp. 80-86.

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