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"It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them."
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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."

"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."

"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."

"To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends.I'd never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with my favorite people."

"While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind."

"Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation."

"I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends."

"A good friend loves you when the condition is better, a best friend holds your hand when you're in gutter."

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."

"Your mind can go ahead and imagine what it wants to imagine, but a true friend will always remain true, in spite of the false messages running through your mind."
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"What's foreign one can't always keep quite clear of,For good things, oft, are not so near;A German can't endure the French to see or hear of,Yet drinks their wines with hearty cheer."

"Nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart."
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