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Lay Morals

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ... thirty, or a hundred thousand at his banker’s, or if all Yorkshire or all California were his to manage or to sell, he would still be morally pennile... ... will say, perhaps, I am too sensitive, that sights as pain- ful abound in cancer hospitals and are confronted daily by doctors and nurses. I have lon... ...ong learned to admire and envy the doctors and the nurses. But there is no cancer hospital so large and populous as Kalawao and Kalaupapa; and in such... ...ned winding-sheet.* Many thought that this apparition was a portent of the deaths connected with the Pentland Rising. On the morning of Wednesday, the...

...n two experiences, is doubly relative. The speaker buries his meaning; it is for the hearer to dig it up again; and all speech, written or spoken, is in a dead language until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. Such, moreover, is the complexity of life, that when we condescend upon details in our advice, we may be sure we condescend on error; and the best of education ...

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