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"Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe."
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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."

"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."

"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."

"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."

"What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy."

"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace."

"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."

"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."

"Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends."
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"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."

"Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand alone can reach."

"Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing."

"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude."

"Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot."
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