It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, then to die daily in the sick-room.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet

Essay (1878-04), “Æs Triplex,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 37
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Collected in Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881).