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"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."
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"Friendship develops over tears, times, laughs and lunch."
"A true friend pays attention without seeking it."
"A best friend is he who hurts you with their love and feels you when you're hurt."
"More times than I'm willing to admit I am my own worst enemy, which suggests that more times than I'm willing to admit I should allow God to be my own best friend."
"The depth of friendship depends on the depth of our love."
"A friend is a favourable family."
"Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this.""Sure I do," he said. "I found my Wish.""God, you're the best," I told him."I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel," he answered."
"A friend can give you the freedom to think differently."
"I to myself am dearer than a friend."
"A good friend is someone who can love you like a dog and talk to you like a human."
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"You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.'Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip."
"Everything passed, and what trace of its passage remained? It seemed to Kitty that they were all, the human race, like the drops of water in that river and they flowed on, each so close to the other and yet so far apart, a nameless flood, to the sea. When all things lasted so short a time and nothing mattered very much, it seemed pitiful that men, attaching an absurd importance to trivial objects, should make themselves and one another so unhappy."
"On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's history; and as there had been a beginning of life upon it, so, under the influence of other conditions, there would be an end: man, no more significant than other forms of life, had come not as the climax of creation but as a physical reaction to the environment."
"It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories."
"I am willing to take life as a game of chess in which the first rules are not open to discussion. No one asks why the knight is allowed his eccentric hop, why the castle may only go straight and the bishop obliquely. These things are to be accepted, and with these rule the game must be played: it is foolish to complain of them."
"Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it."
"It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour."
"I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written."
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