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Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

— Robert Louis Stevenson Attributed

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Wikiquote lists this as attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson, but no primary source has been found.

Source: by Senator Sam Ervin in his last newsletter, Senator Sam Ervin Says, January 2, 1975, p. 2. Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).
Source quality: Precise citation Points to a specific work with a page, chapter, date or similar locator, so you can look it up.

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