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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

«Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.»
«I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.»
«The cruellest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.»
«There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.»
«I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson (Author, Essayist, Poet) | About: Hate | Keywords: cynicism
«You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly.»
«There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.»
«An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate»
«The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye»
«Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is - nor yet so good a Christian»

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