The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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