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By Robert Louis Stevenson
The cruellest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
- Source
- Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (first edition), 1881 · "Truth of Intercourse", p. 81 (printed page number seen on the page image)
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- Internet Archive (scan of the first edition, London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881)
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From "Truth of Intercourse", an essay in Robert Louis Stevenson's Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881). The essayist speaks.