“To be suddenly snuffed out in the middle of ambitious schemes, is tragical enough at best, but when a man has been grudging himself his own life in the meanwhile, and saving up everything for the festival that was never to be, it becomes that hysterically moving sort of tragedy which lies on the confines of farce.”
More from Robert Louis Stevenson
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“An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on…”
“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”