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W. Somerset Maugham

"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."

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"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."

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

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"Some of my friends who know me best say they wouldn't trade places with me for $1 million because of the pace I lead."

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"We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

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