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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes about Truth

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1903). “Virginibus Puerisque: An Essay in Four Parts”

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.2184, e-artnow

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Grove Day (1991). “Travels in Hawaii”, p.155, University of Hawaii Press