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"Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one."
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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."

"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."

"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."

"To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends.I'd never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with my favorite people."

"This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories. I only listened - the stories on my mind weren't that funny."

"While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind."

"Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends."

"Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation."

"A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go."

"I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration."

"It usually takes 100 years to make a law and then after it's done its work it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it."

"Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top."

"God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how."
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