We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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