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Thucydides

"We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them."

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"We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them."

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"This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories. I only listened - the stories on my mind weren't that funny."

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"My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant."

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"Who makes you least confused?""Calvin" There was no hesitation here. "When I'm with Calvin, I don't mind being me""You mean he makes you more you, don't you?""I guess you could put it that way."

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"Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend."

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"That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of."

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