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"Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise."
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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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"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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"Friends are an aid to the young to guard them from error to the elderly to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action to those in the prime of life to assist them to noble deeds."
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"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."
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"A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide."
Death
"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing."
Old
"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
Happiness
"I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late."
Society
"A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself stupidity often saves a man from going mad."
Psychology
"I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap."
Time
"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."
Expectation
"A man is a kind of inverted thermometer the bulb uppermost and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down."
Self
"When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences."
Poetry
"When in doubt do it."
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