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"The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard."
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"Friendship is a magnificent art of life that is drawn by two hearts and two minds."

"Because God is love the most important lesson He wants you to learn on earth is how to love."

"I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you."

"Time should make enemies and Life should make friends."

"Though I can make a friend in an hour, it will take a lifetime to cultivate a friendship."

"Best friends are those people who reveal to you what is wonderful inside of you, and you can all still laugh together."

"Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs."

"We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them."

"It's the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we'll move on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on."

"The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ."
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"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."

"A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done."

"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."

"No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe."

"Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions."

"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
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