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"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."
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"Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference."

"Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy."

"False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade."

"It was at a conference in Cyprus in 1976, where the theme was the rights of small nations, that I first met Edward Said. It was impossible not to be captivated by him: of his many immediately seductive qualities I will start by mentioning a very important one. When he laughed, it was as if he was surrendering unconditionally to some guilty pleasure. At first the very picture of professorial rectitude, with faultless tweeds, cravats, and other accoutrements (the pipe also being to the fore), he would react to a risqué remark, or a disclosure of something vaguely scandalous, as if a whole Trojan horse of mirth had been smuggled into his interior and suddenly disgorged its contents. The build-up, in other words, was worth one's effort."

"I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it,if there were not a friend?The friend of the hermit is always the third one: the third one is the float which prevents the conversation of the two from sinking into the depth."

"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity."

"Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves."

"I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial."

"A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own."
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"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit."

"In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are."

"Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity."
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