The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAll speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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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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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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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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