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"I usually only play with very close friends."
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"A decent boldness ever meets with friends."
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"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
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"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."
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"He is the best friend who can see and reveal to you what is the best in you."
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"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."
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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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"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
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"What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy."
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"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace."
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"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."
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"I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit."
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"We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud."
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"I usually only play with very close friends."
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"If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always."
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"Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway."
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"Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end."
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"The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I feel that we are all experiencing the music together."
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"I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes."
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"If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job."
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"The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction."
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