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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

Your strength can compensate for my weakness, and your wisdom can help to minimize my mistakes.

There are some days when we need a hand. There are other days when we're called on to lend one.

Politics need not be a raging fire destroying everything in its path.

We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts.

In final account, then, not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates.

Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession.

granting that we had both the will and the sense to choose our friends well, how few of us have the power! or, at least, how limited, for most, is the sphere of choice!

Running in this Road I found many like myself; and we associated in that which is the reverse of true Friendship.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Your friend is your needs answered.

I don’t know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

To lament the death of a friend is both natural and just; a sigh or a tear I would allow to his memory: but no profuse or obstinate sorrow.

Of Severus, my brother, I learned to love my kinsmen, to love truth, to love justice.

Such friendship enhances prosperity, and relieves adversity of its burden by halving and sharing it.

it was the virtue of the man that I loved, and that has not suffered death

In such cases friendships should be allowed to die out gradually by an intermission of intercourse.

Our first object, then, should be to prevent a breach; our second, to secure that, if it does occur, our friendship should seem to have died a natural rather than a violent death.

The real limit to be observed in friendship is this: the characters of two friends must be stainless.

it is in regard to friendship, as in so many other things, so supple and sensitive that it expands, so to speak, at a friend's good fortune, contracts at his misfortunes

For them all is suspicion and anxiety; for them there is no possibility of friendship.

Fire and water themselves, to use a common expression, are not of more universal use than friendship.

Now friendship may be thus defined: a complete accord on all subjects human and divine, joined with mutual goodwill and affection.

In the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self.