 | 1878 - 300 páginas
...upon the stage ; but I am prepared to deal largely in the opposite commodity. A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of good-will ; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted. We need not... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1877 - 808 páginas
...upon the stage ; but I am prepared to deal largely in the opposite commodity. A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note....they practically demonstrate the great Theorem of the Liveableness of Life. Consequently, if a person cannot be happy without remaining idle, idle he should... | |
 | 1877 - 826 páginas
...but upon the stage; but I am prepared to deal largely in the opposite commodity. A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note....been lighted. We need not care whether they could pro^e the fortyseventh proposition ; they do a better thing than that, they practically demonstrate... | |
 | Diurnal - 1885 - 246 páginas
...ourselves, or, when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so much as the benefactor. A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of good-will ; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted. RL STEYENSON.... | |
 | E.M. ABDY-WILLIAMS - 1885 - 772 páginas
...need." And again: — "A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. . . . We need not care whether they could prove the forty-seventh proposition ; they do a better thing that, they practically demonstrate the great Theorem of the Liveableness of Life." This is the theorem... | |
 | 1910 - 392 páginas
...telling this story to children imitate the moaning and whistling of the wind. A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note....they practically demonstrate the great Theorem of the Livableness of Life. — Robert Louis Stevenson. Forty-Eighth Annual Convention of the National Education... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1890 - 300 páginas
...upon the stage ; but I am prepared to deal largely in the opposite commodity. A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill ; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted. We need not... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1893 - 250 páginas
...upon the stage ; but 1 am prepared to deal largely in the opposite commodity. A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of good-will ; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted. We need not... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 238 páginas
...ourselves, or when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so much as the benefactor A HAPPY man or woman is a better thing •*"*• to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill ; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted. We need not... | |
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A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of good will ; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted. 
