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"Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back."
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"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."

"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."

"He is the best friend who can see and reveal to you what is the best in you."

"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."

"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."

"What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy."

"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace."
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"I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."

"There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him."

"Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good."

"In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious."

"Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established."

"When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair."
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