The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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