| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 56464 |
| QUOTATION: | If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say “give them up,” for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), Scottish novelist, essayist, poet. Across the Plains, “A Christmas Sermon,” sct. 2 (1892). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Stevenson Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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