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"Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them."
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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."
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"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
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"The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define."
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"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."
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"Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."
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"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."
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"To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends.I'd never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with my favorite people."
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"We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude."
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"This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories. I only listened - the stories on my mind weren't that funny."
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"My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant."
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"Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom."
Simplicity
"God helps them that helps themselves."
Self-Help
"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
Psychology
"A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges."
History
"Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones, the difference is only in the price."
Life
"He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities."
Success
"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed."
Freedom
"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."
Life
"Be not sick too late, nor well too soon."
Health
"Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house. [Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."]"
Guidance
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