To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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