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" A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a fivepound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill ; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted. "
The Cornhill Magazine - Page 85
edited by - 1877
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The Christian Pioneer, Volumes 32-33

Baptists - 1878 - 300 pages
...he had looked pleased before, he had now to look both pleased and mystified. For my part, I j ustify this encouragement of smiling rather than tearful...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...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 26; Volume 89

American periodicals - 1877 - 826 pages
...the street after a marble, with so jolly an air that he set everyone he passed into a good humor ; one of these persons, who had been delivered from...been lighted. We need not care whether they could pro^e the fortyseventh proposition ; they do a better thing than that, they practically demonstrate...
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A diurnal for the changes and chances of this mortal life [extracts] ed. by ...

Diurnal - 1885 - 246 pages
...unknown even to 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...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....
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Time, Volume 2; Volume 13

Edmund Hodgson Yates, Mrs. Ellen Mary (Abdy-Williams) Whishaw, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - English periodicals - 1885 - 776 pages
...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...
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TIME

E.M. ABDY-WILLIAMS - 1885 - 772 pages
...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...
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Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1890 - 300 pages
...ragged, barefoot boy ran down the street after a marble, with so jolly an air that he set every one he passed into a good humour ; one of these persons,...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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Virginibus Puerisque: And Other Papers

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1893 - 250 pages
...smiling rather than tearful children ; I do not want to pay for tears anywhere but upon the stage ; but 1 am prepared to deal largely in the opposite commodity....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...
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The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 13

Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1895 - 380 pages
...ragged, barefoot boy ran down the street after a marble, with so jolly an air that he set every one he passed into a good humour; one of these persons,...five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of good76 will ; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted. We need...
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The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson: Virginibus puerisque ...

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 388 pages
...ragged, barefoot boy ran down the street after a marble, with so jolly an air that he set every one he passed into a good humour; one of these persons,...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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The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson...

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 380 pages
...and mystified. For my part, I justify this encouragement of smiling rather than tearful children ; 1 do not wish to pay for tears anywhere but upon the...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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