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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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"When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman."
"Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do."
"There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking."
"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman."
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