| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1911 - عدد الصفحات: 288
...for tears anywhere 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...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... | |
| Sir Harold Herbert Williams - 1925 - عدد الصفحات: 554
...good." The world at large prefers happy people, and rightly, for, as Stevenson inadequately remarked, a happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. Unhappy men have rarely won great honour in their generation, and Gissing was not only unhappy —... | |
| Leverett Samuel Lyon, A. Marie Butler - 1927 - عدد الصفحات: 628
...for tears anywhere 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...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... | |
| Otto Jespersen - 1927 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...Di F 480 there are times when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight | Stevenson VP 123 A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note | Shaw D 50 It's not an easy case to judge | Galsw H 110 The Boers are a hard nut to crack | White... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1925 - عدد الصفحات: 360
...anywhere but upon the stage ; but I am I prepared to deal largely in the opposite commodity. A happy I 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... | |
| 1913 - عدد الصفحات: 422
...you will know how to command. Be cheerful. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson's works reads : " A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than...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... | |
| Paul Maixner - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 562
...not suffer itself to be overlaid, and rarely or never deserts him in the hour of 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 [than]... | |
| John Gookin - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 148
...never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. Sydney Smith A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than...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. Robert Louis... | |
| Colin Bingham - 2006 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...history of the busiest and most hard-working woman in Great Britain. GEORGE DU MAURIER, The Martian A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than...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. A witty woman... | |
| Ralph Waldo Trine - 2006 - عدد الصفحات: 109
...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 26 been lighted. We need not care whether they could prove the forty-seventh proposition. They do a... | |
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