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"The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many."
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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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"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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"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."
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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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"What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy."
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"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."
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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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"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy."
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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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"It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait."
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"The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many."
Friendship
"An artist's career always begins tomorrow."
Creativity
"The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell."
Criticism
"To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano."
Nature
"Work alone will efface the footsteps of work."
Work
"If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible."
People
"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."
Vision
"I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring."
Genius
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