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Richard Eisner would like to know where Robert Louis Stevenson wrote, "That man is a success who lives well, laughs often, loves much; who fills his niche and loves his task; who leaves the world better than he found it; who looks for the best in others and gives the best he has."
F. Arnold Romberg requests the source of the quotation, "It was conversation I was hearing, the free, passionate, witty exchange of studied minds as polished as fine tools...They pressed their views with vigor and sincerity and eloquence, but their good temper never failed them."
Dana Little asks who said, "When you see the word 'primitive,' always substitute the word 'complicated.'"
"neutral on moral issues" (July-August). Charles Russell was first to suggest an original source in Inferno, canto 3, lines 22-69. Eliot Kieval proposed as the direct source John Kennedy's remarks on June 24, 1963, at a ceremony establishing the German Peace Corps: "Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality."
"reading Henry James" (July-August). Both Earle Rudolph and Louise Dean Crelly noted that this poem, on view in James's house in Rye, Sussex, is attributed to "Anonymous."
"battle for Quebec" (July-August). John Maher supplied the anonymous eighteenth-century work "Brave Wolfe," printed in Burton Stevenson's Poems of American History (1922).