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"Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree."

"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends."

"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends."

"Piper: it looks like we have hole. Percy: Yeah we've got a dam hole! (LOL-ing) Piper: What! Percy: Inside joke. (still LOL-ing) Piper: Whatever."

"I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness."

"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."

"Never injure a friend, even in jest."

"Friendships founded on laughter are always fortuitous."

"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty."

"Friends are God's apology for relations."
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"There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful."

"Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing."

"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."

"There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best."

"Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an intellectual or moral passion strong enough to create order, to create a new way of looking at life. It is because I am too diffused. I have decided never to write another novel. I have fifty 'subjects' I could write about; and they would be competent enough. If there is one thing we can be sure of, it is that competent and informative novels will continue to pour from the publishing houses. I have only one, and the least important, of the qualities necessary to write at all, and that is curiosity. It is the curiosity of the journalist."

"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."

"I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents."
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