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"Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends."
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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."

"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."

"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."

"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."

"Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

"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."

"We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude."

"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."
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"Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money."


"Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men."


"The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same."


"We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today."


"Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best."


"Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?"
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