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"Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence."
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"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."
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"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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"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous."
"The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application."
"To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian."
"The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one."
"That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise."
"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them."
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