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Evelyn Waugh

"We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them."

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"We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them."

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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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"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."

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

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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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"That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of."

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"While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind."

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"Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands."

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