“So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

"Lay Morals" Ch. 4, in Lay Morals and Other Essays (1911) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/373.

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

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