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All Quotes Collection

"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
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"Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side."
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"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance."
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"We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured."
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"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
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"They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases."
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"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."
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"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
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"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."
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"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."
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"The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication."
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"I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old."
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"There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior."
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"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
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"Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope."
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"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back."
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"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."
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"Food is an important part of a balanced diet."
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"Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
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"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."
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"The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague."
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"The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not."
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"Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching."
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"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."
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"We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time."
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"The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself."
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