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" To be honest, to be kind — to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation... "
Character and Conduct: A Book of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past ... - Page 7
by Constance M. Whishaw - 1908 - 374 pages
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Modern Achievement, Volume 5

1902 - 508 pages
...a-sorrowing," said poor Richard. Writing of his ideal of a perfect life, Robert Louis Stevenson said : " To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little and to spend a little less ; to make, on the whole, a family happier by his presence ; to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to...
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Composition-literature

Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1902 - 410 pages
...the whole a family happier by his presence ; to renounce where that shall be necessary, and not to be embittered ; to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation ; above all, on the same grim conditions to keep friends with himself — here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and...
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Composition-literature

Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1902 - 408 pages
...the whole a family happier by his presence ; to renounce where that shall be necessary, and not to be embittered ; to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation ; above all, 011 the same grim conditions to keep friends with himself — here is a task for all that a man has...
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Stevensoniana

Sir John Alexander Hammerton - 1903 - 382 pages
...to be kind, to earn a little and spend a little less : to make, upon the whole, a family happier by his presence : to renounce when that shall be necessary...without capitulation — above all, on the same grim conditions, to keep friends with himself — here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and...
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The Building Laws of Human Character; Or, Every Man's Monitor ...

1903 - 172 pages
...shall have to give an account of the seed that grows from our sowing. — Fr. McLaughlin, C. 8. SR To be honest; to be kind; to earn a little and to...little less ; to make, upon the whole, a family happier by his presence; to renounce where that shall be necessary, and not to be embittered ; to keep few...
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Stevensoniana

Sir John Alexander Hammerton - 1903 - 380 pages
...the author's ' Christmas Sermon ' as follows : — ' To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little and spend a little less : to make, upon the whole, a family happier by his presence : to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered : to keep a few friends,...
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Book Buyer

1898 - 94 pages
...of morals from the author's " Christmas Sermon ": " To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little and spend a little less; to make, upon the whole, a family happier by his presence; to renounce when THE NEW f-TE [From a photograph by Taber] that shall be necessary...
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The Pocket R.L.S.: Being Favourite Passages from the Works of Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1904 - 238 pages
...to pray God that we be not led into temptation ; but not lawful to skulk from those that come to us. 'T'O be honest, to be kind — to earn a little •*•...presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation — above all, on the same...
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Teachers' Manual for Second Reader

Isaac Kaufman Funk, Montrose Jonas Moses - 1904 - 328 pages
...fellow-men a secret element of gusto. . . . " To be honest, to be kind—to earn a little and to spend . i little less, to make upon the whole a family happier...embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation—above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself—here is a task...
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The Picaroons

Gelett Burgess, Will Irwin - 1904 - 302 pages
...on the marble shaft. It was the Harvard Freshman. " To be honest, to be lind," Coffin was reading, " to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence " — and then he turned away with a bitter protest in his throat, to see the Hero of Pago Bridge looking...
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