The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONGive us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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