I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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