No class of man is altogether bad, but each has its own faults and virtues.

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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David reconsidering his first disdainful reactions to the sailors on the ship he's a prisoner of.

This chapter was originally published in Young Folks Paper, Vol. 28, No. 807 (1886-05-15)