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"Of all possessions a friend is the most precious."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy."
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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 man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless."
Fortune
"Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate."
Man
"In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons."
Peace
"The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing."
Power
"Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change."
Change
"If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own."
Man
"The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence."
Influence
"A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it."
Society
"Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace."
Peace
"Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever."
Man
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