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"Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee."
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"Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree."

"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."

"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends."

"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends."

"Piper: it looks like we have hole. Percy: Yeah we've got a dam hole! (LOL-ing) Piper: What! Percy: Inside joke. (still LOL-ing) Piper: Whatever."

"I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness."

"I use my friends rather as giglamps : There's another field I see: by your light. Over there's a hill. I widen my landscape."

"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title."

"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."

"Never injure a friend, even in jest."
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"Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure."


"Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable."


"Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards."


"He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again."


"Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it."


"We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched."
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