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"I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."
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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!"

"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it."

"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts."

"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."

"If they criticise you before they cheer you on, they are not your people. Simple."
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"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

"Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy."

"The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul."

"The Machine stops.""What do you say?""The Machine is stopping, I know it, I know the signs."She burst into a peal of laugher."

"Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake."
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