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A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circul...

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The word in your mouth is anarchy.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your ...

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Straight between them ran the pathway,Never grew the grass upon it

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by ...

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The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance...

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Govinda was standing in front of him, dressed in the yellow robe of an ascetic. Sad was how Govinda ...

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From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,There's nothing worth the wear of ...

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There's nothing worth the wear of winning but laughter and the love of friends.

If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable; you have to lear...

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man ...

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For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother

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HomerThe Odyssey

I need a life outside of soccer. So I very much welcome, you know, new love interests and dating and...

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I started to think of friends I could lean on for some help, but, as always happened when I attempte...

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I've always liked older women. One sad thing about being my age is that there are no older women. I ...

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Mutual respect! That's what it takes to be friends.

I don't care about the internal political system of the United States. I want to be a friend of Unit...

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Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high place...

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He did not know or care whether they were wizards or Muggles, friends or foes; all he cared about wa...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

No, Harry, you listen," said Hermione. "We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, ...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Karakarof spat onto the ground at Dumbledore's feet. In one swift movement, Hagrid seized the front ...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

I enjoyed the meetings, too. It was like having friends.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what h...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

I think they ought to know. You do them a disservice by not confiding something this important to th...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our fri...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

The Eleven king looked sternly upon Thorin, when he was brought before him, and asked him many quest...

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I don't think I'm a workaholic. Every weekend, I invite my colleagues and friends to my home to play...

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The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When y...

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Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

I relax by catching up with my friends and family. When I am at home in Ibiza, I find the contrast o...

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Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your...

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Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your...

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Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your...

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Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your...

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As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage...

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The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me ...

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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Mr. ***** is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends -- whether he may be e...

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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

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Jane AustenJane Austen's Letters

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving peop...

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Jane AustenNorthanger Abbey

They all went indoors with their new friends, and found rooms so small as none but those who invite ...

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It's interesting because a lot of my 16-year-old kids' friends know me from 'Wedding Crashers,' and ...

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Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment...

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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without reali...

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People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their fr...

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I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you thir...

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I travel for work, but recently, friends said I should take major trips.

I enjoy repartee and frequently engage in devil's advocacy. In short, when I talk to friends, I do n...

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I want to see friends more and travel more.

They’d never really been my friends; I didn’t cultivate friends, I had just inherited them from my h...

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I never advise friends to put money in anything,. said Danny. 'It's a no-win situation - if they mak...

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Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from ho...

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One tradition I have with my friends is that when one of us gets married, we have a ton of fragrance...

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Tony Benn and I were very close, very close friends for 30, 40 years. We talked to each other a grea...

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Some nights, we were a city of two.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer...

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I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who...

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Back-to-back", Bayard replied, and Grimm felt the sudden, wiry pressure of the other man's shoulders...

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If the nature of her foes would speak to the credit of Bridget's death, then surely the nature of he...

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Jim ButcherThe Aeronaut's Windlass

There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.

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Jim HensonFavorite Songs from Jim Henson's Muppets

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself...

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I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

Trust me, there's not one night a week I'm not in a theater somewhere. I adore theater, and I go out...

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But even if every house looked identical-if all the furnishings were the same- it still wouldn't fee...

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You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.

I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspectiv...

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Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these.

Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; ...

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Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their ...

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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends...

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Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and ne...

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Who friendship with a knave hath made Is judged a partner in the trade.

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

Part of not being a self-centered asshole, Colin reasoned, is doing things with your friends even wh...

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Kafir, you have a very complicated problem with a very simple solution.

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

...being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.

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John Green (author)Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories...

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Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet...

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Such was life that morning: nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad o...

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You get all these friends when just when you don't need friends anymore.

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John Green (author)The Fault in Our Stars

When I was little, my dad used to tell me, "Will, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your n...

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you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.

Okay, let’s pretend to be friends. Just two friends having dinner.” “That doesn’t work in the South....

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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor...

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Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor...

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Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor...

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Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor...

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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

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John IrvingA Prayer for Owen Meany

The way you remember or dream about your loved ones - the ones who are gone - you can't stop their e...

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You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and...

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When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk t...

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Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who hav...

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Being honest may not get you a lot of friends it’ll get you the right ones

I get by with a little help from my friends.