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" As a matter of fact, an intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils. There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge... "
Scribner's Magazine - Page 26
edited by - 1897
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 36

William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1877 - 808 pages
...on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils. There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to...will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life. While others are filling their memory with a lumber of words, one-half of which they will forget before...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 26; Volume 89

American periodicals - 1877 - 826 pages
...on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils. There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to...will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life. While others are filling their memory with a lumber of words, one-half of which they will forget before...
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Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1890 - 300 pages
...on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils. There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to...will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life. While others are filling their memory with a lumber of words, one-half of which they will forget before...
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Virginibus Puerisque: And Other Papers

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1893 - 250 pages
...on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils. There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to...will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life. While others are filling their memory with a lumber of words, one half of which they will forget before...
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The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson: Virginibus puerisque ...

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 388 pages
...on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils. There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to...will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life. While others are filling their memory with a lumber of words, one-half of which they will forget before...
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The Pocket R.L.S.: Being Favourite Passages from the Works of Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson - Quotations, Scottish - 1895 - 238 pages
...on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils. There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to...will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life. While others are filling their memory with a lumber of words, one-half of which they will forget before...
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The Pocket R.L.S.: Being Favourite Passages from the Works of Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1914 - 236 pages
...on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils. There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to...will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life. While others are filling their memory with a lumber of words, oneā€¢half of which they will forget...
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The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson...

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 380 pages
...more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils. There is certainly some chill ftd arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal...will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life. While others are filling their memory with a lumber of words, one-half of which they will forget before...
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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
...on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils. There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to...all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, 71 that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life. While others are filling their memory...
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The Stevenson Reader: Selected Passages from the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1898 - 316 pages
...on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils. There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to...round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that o you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life. While others are filling their memory with...
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