"Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you."
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"He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man."
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"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."
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"A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away."
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"Wayne put me right here, that's who I get the paper wit. I hope that my success never alters our relationship."
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"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again."
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"There is no hope of joy except in human relations."
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"no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world."
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"These violent delights have violent ends."
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"Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen."
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"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo."
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"The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends."
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"Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words."
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"With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world."
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"You Too? I thought I was the only one."
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"Write in the sand the flaws of your friend."
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"There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul."
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"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly."
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"universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality."
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"Your life experience will never far exceed the expectations of your peers, because to stay connected to them there is an unconscious contract that says we're going to be within this range of each other. Now, on the other hand, if for some reason your friends have a higher expectation for life than you do, just to stay on the team you've got to raise your standard."
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