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"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."
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"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."

"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."

"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."

"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."

"What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy."

"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace."

"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."

"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
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"For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."

"I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything."

"If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good."

"A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion."
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