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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 133
AUTHOR: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94)
QUOTATION: Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
ATTRIBUTION: ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, “An Apology for Idlers,” Virginibus Puerisque and Later Essays, p. 80 (1969). Written between 1874–1879.
SUBJECTS: Books
 


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