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George Eliot

"It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old."

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"It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old."

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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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"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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"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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"That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of."

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"While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind."

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"Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends."

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"And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment."
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"Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet."
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"I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best."
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