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"Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend."
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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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"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."
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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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"Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know?"
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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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"Friends are an aid to the young to guard them from error to the elderly to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action to those in the prime of life to assist them to noble deeds."
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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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"An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years."
Writing
"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse."
City
"Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us."
Biology
"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."
Humility
"The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one."
Duty
"Carve every word before you let it fall."
Word
"A general flavour of mild decay but nothing local as one may say."
Atmosphere
"For me at least there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph: keep the fire burning until by and by out of the mass of sordid details there comes some result."
Perseverance
"Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow."
Soul
"To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old."
Old
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