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"Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies."
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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant."
"While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind."
"Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends."
"Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation."
"A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go."
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"Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator."
"Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress."
"What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after."
"You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency."
"Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors."
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