The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNo man is useless while he has a friend.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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