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"Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend."
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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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"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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"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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"Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know?"
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"And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling, the question should never be: 'Do I like that kind of service?' but 'Are these doctrines true: Is holiness there? Does my conscience move me towards this? Is my reluctance to move to this door due to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike for this particular door-keeper?"
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"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."
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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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"Friends are an aid to the young to guard them from error to the elderly to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action to those in the prime of life to assist them to noble deeds."
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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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"The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government."
Happiness


"Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend."
Friendship


"To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back."
Burden


"Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience."
Authority


"Punctuality is the soul of business."
Business


"A college education shows a man how little other people know."
Education


"A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love."
Love


"Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence."
Life


"When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry."
Man


"No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings."
Poor
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