The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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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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