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"We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them."
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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."

"The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define."

"Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."

"To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends.I'd never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with my favorite people."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of."
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"Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger."


"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it."


"Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured."


"Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war."


"We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness."


"Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought."
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