The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONA friend is a gift you give yourself.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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