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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

"She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again."

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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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"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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"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."

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"This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories. I only listened - the stories on my mind weren't that funny."

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

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"Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends."

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"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."

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"A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go."

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"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."

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