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"Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship."
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"Friendship is a magnificent art of life that is drawn by two hearts and two minds."

"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."

"I have lost friends some by death ... others by sheer inability to cross the street."

"How very wonderful friends the moon, the sea and the night are!"

"Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man."

"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."

"He is the best friend who can see and reveal to you what is the best in you."

"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."
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"Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others."

"What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself."

"He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion."

"Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?"

"You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all."
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