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"The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend."
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"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
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"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."
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"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."
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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."
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"What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy."
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"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."
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"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."
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"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
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"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy."
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"Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single mind)Like cast off clothes was left behindIn ashes, yet with hopes that she,Re-born from holy poverty,In lenten lands, hereafter mayResume them on her Easter Day."(Epitaph for Joy Davidman)"
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"Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!"
Family


"Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame."
Fame


"The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend."
Friendship


"I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence."
Existence


"His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar."
Identity


"Suspense is worse than disappointment."
Lifestyle


"The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn."
Lifestyle


"Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings."
Dying


"Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects."
Lifestyle


"Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve."
Character
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