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"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."
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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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"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
Happiness
"I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late."
Society
"Love prefers twilight to daylight."
Love
"Don't be consistent but be simply true."
Authenticity
"An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years."
Writing
"I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used could be sunk to the bottom of the sea it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes."
Society
"If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement or read any of those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old."
Aging
"The AmenT of Nature is always a flower."
Nature
"One unquestioned text we read All doubt beyond all fear above Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed Can burn or blot it: God is Love."
Faith
"Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them."
People
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