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"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."
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"Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference."
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"Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy."
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"False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade."
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"It was at a conference in Cyprus in 1976, where the theme was the rights of small nations, that I first met Edward Said. It was impossible not to be captivated by him: of his many immediately seductive qualities I will start by mentioning a very important one. When he laughed, it was as if he was surrendering unconditionally to some guilty pleasure. At first the very picture of professorial rectitude, with faultless tweeds, cravats, and other accoutrements (the pipe also being to the fore), he would react to a risqué remark, or a disclosure of something vaguely scandalous, as if a whole Trojan horse of mirth had been smuggled into his interior and suddenly disgorged its contents. The build-up, in other words, was worth one's effort."
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"I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it,if there were not a friend?The friend of the hermit is always the third one: the third one is the float which prevents the conversation of the two from sinking into the depth."
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"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity."
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"Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves."
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"I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial."
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"A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own."
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"No nation has friends only interests."
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"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity."
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"Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip."
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"Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say."
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"The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end."
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"It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends."
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"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us."
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"The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down."
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"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."
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"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."
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"We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them."
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