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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. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#correction #eye #friend #kills #know

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, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#destiny #divine #down #fathers #fatigue

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#being #degeneration #fatty #his #man

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#conquer #curiosity #mortify #one thing #thing

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#conversation #disputes #long #marriage

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#consequences #down #everyone #later #sits

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#come #crying #house #love #many

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#else #joke #kant #must #read

I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it. ↗

— Emanuel Steward

#bleed #boxing #could #down #eight

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure. ↗

— Emanuel Steward

#after #being #course #failure #fear