"What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence."
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"He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back."
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"Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be 'buttered up' from time to time."
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"Let your best be for your friend."
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"There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbours, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor humility mitigate."
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"About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything save for other single-track devotions. He was a master in his own filed and felt no sympathy except for mastery. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter.""
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"A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity."
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"Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years."
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"It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old."
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"A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest."
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"I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty."
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"Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior."
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"It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?"
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"Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own."
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"Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends."
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"Friends are proved by adversity."
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"The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country."
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"Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction."
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"But fate ordains that dearest friends must part."
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"In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things."
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