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"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."
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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."

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

"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."

"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."

"Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

"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."

"We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude."

"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."

"My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant."
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"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."

"So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late."

"No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?"

"The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being."

"Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen."

"There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men."

"I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it."

"In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive."
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