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"For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!"
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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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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."
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"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."
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"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
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"Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single mind)Like cast off clothes was left behindIn ashes, yet with hopes that she,Re-born from holy poverty,In lenten lands, hereafter mayResume them on her Easter Day."(Epitaph for Joy Davidman)"
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"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."
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"Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know?"
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"And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling, the question should never be: 'Do I like that kind of service?' but 'Are these doctrines true: Is holiness there? Does my conscience move me towards this? Is my reluctance to move to this door due to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike for this particular door-keeper?"
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"True friends appear less moved than counterfeit."
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"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."
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"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you."
Gardening
"There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature."
Possibility
"Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword."
Time
"The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency."
People
"A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar."
End
"Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible."
Nothing
"He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts."
Imagination
"You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest."
Interest
"The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed."
Fatigue
"My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!"
Valor
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