 People usually do things, and suffer martyrdoms, because they have an inclination that way. The best artist is not the man who fixes his eye on posterity, but the one who loves the practice of his art. And instead of having a taste for being successful...  The Cornhill Magazine - Page 47edited by - 1878Full view - About this book
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 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 380 pages
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 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1896 - 740 pages
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