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"There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends."
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"Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree."
"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."
"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends."
"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends."
"Piper: it looks like we have hole. Percy: Yeah we've got a dam hole! (LOL-ing) Piper: What! Percy: Inside joke. (still LOL-ing) Piper: Whatever."
"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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"Never injure a friend, even in jest."
"Friendships founded on laughter are always fortuitous."
"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty."
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"Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world."
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