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"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature."
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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."

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

"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."
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"My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered."

"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."

"The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash."

"A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon."

"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."

"It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate."

"Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world."
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