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"No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her."
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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."
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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."
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"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."
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"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
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"Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single mind)Like cast off clothes was left behindIn ashes, yet with hopes that she,Re-born from holy poverty,In lenten lands, hereafter mayResume them on her Easter Day."(Epitaph for Joy Davidman)"
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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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"Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know?"
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"And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling, the question should never be: 'Do I like that kind of service?' but 'Are these doctrines true: Is holiness there? Does my conscience move me towards this? Is my reluctance to move to this door due to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike for this particular door-keeper?"
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"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."
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"Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."
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"For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best."
Wisdom
"Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance."
Learning
"But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor."
Temptation
"Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly."
Creativity
"Alive ridiculous and dead forgot?"
Mortality
"The proper study of Mankind is Man."
Humanity
"True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can."
Wisdom
"Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example."
Wisdom
"A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature."
Spiritual
"Oh let me live my own! and die so too! ("To live and die is all I have to do:") Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see what friends, and read what books I please."
Life
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