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"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."
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"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend."
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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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"The best things to hold on to are the memories of friendship and love."
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"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy."
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"A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends."
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"I dislike the phrase 'Internet friends,' because it implies that people you know online aren't really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance."
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"Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul."
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"They're a little strange, but I'm pretty sure neither of them is going to try to make me uncomfortable by stripping naked."
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"Sometimes you win friends, sometimes you lose friends. Both can help you to grow faster."
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"One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies."
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"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."
Diplomacy
"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed."
Positive
"Every man over forty is responsible for his face."
Aging
"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."
Persistence
"As our case is new, we must think and act anew."
Innovation
"Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
Social
"My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all."
Childhood
"I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No-when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees."
Religion
"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."
Politics
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
Government
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