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E. M. Forster

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

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

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

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

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

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"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."

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"If they criticise you before they cheer you on, they are not your people. Simple."

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