Quote#Education
I have thus played the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to…
Quote byRobert Louis Stevenson · 1850–1894
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Memories and Portraits, ch. IV. A College Magazine (1887)..
English (original)
I have thus played the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to Sir Thomas Browne, to Defoe, to Hawthorne, to Montaigne, to Baudelaire and to Obermann. (...) That, like it or not, is the way to learn to write whether I have profited or not, that is the way.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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