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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 473
AUTHOR: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94)
QUOTATION: There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
ATTRIBUTION: ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, “An Apology for Idlers,” Virginibus Puerisque and Later Essays, p. 88 (1969). Written between 1874–1879.
SUBJECTS: Duty