The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONPolitics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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 cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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