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"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends."
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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."
"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
"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."
"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."
"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."
"We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude."
"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."
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"Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe."
"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."
"The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it."
"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."
"Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
"As mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality."
"The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves."
"If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
"Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it."
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