“You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with someone else.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson, book Virginibus Puerisque

Virginibus Puerisque, Ch. 1. http://books.google.com/books?id=Alw-AAAAYAAJ&q=%22You+could+read+Kant+by+yourself+if+you+wanted+but+you+must+share+a+joke+with+some+one%22+else&pg=PA17#v=onepage <br class="br">Cornhill Magazine, (August 1876) http://books.google.com/books?id=VoNHAAAAYAAJ&q=%22You+could+read+Kant+by+yourself+if+you+wanted+but+you+must+share+a+joke+with+some+one+else%22&pg=PA174#v=onepage <br class="br">Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

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Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer 1850–1894

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