All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing like a little judicious levity.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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