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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More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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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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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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