The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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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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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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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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