A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
They were a rough lot indeed, as sailors mostly are: being men rooted out of all the kindly parts of life, and condemned to toss together on the rough seas, with masters no less cruel.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Novel (1886), Kidnapped, ch. 7 “I Go to Sea in the Brig Covenant of Dysart”
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Stevenson, Robert Louis - Novel (1886), Kidnapped, ch. 7 "I Go to Sea in the Brig Covenant of Dysart" | WIST Quotations
They were a rough lot indeed, as sailors mostly are: being men rooted out of all the kindly parts of life, and condemned to toss together on the rough seas, with masters no less cruel. This chapter was originally published in Young Folks Paper, Vol.WIST Quotations