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"Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy."
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"Friendship is a magnificent art of life that is drawn by two hearts and two minds."

"Best friends are those people who reveal to you what is wonderful inside of you, and you can all still laugh together."

"Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."

"A friend is a favourable family."

"Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."

"Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends."

"A best friend is he who can emulate a dog but still can talk."

"A friend is a stranger that you have come to know better."

"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."
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"In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game."


"Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of."


"The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just."


"It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to."


"Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography."


"A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in."


"All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold."


"You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish."


"Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society."
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