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"It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity."
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"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no 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."

"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."

"Friendships founded on laughter are always fortuitous."

"Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins."

"But it does not seem that I can trust anyone,' said Frodo.Sam looked at him unhappily. 'It all depends on what you want,' put in Merry. 'You can trust us to stick with you through thick and thin--to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours--closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo."

"Anna would like you, he thinks, looking into her face. Anna would like you."

"We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade."

"Be the person you would want to be friends with."
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"Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal."

"A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes."

"The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon."

"In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste."

"The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history."

"If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved."

"It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity."
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