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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Physician, Poet, Essayist
Friendship

"Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."

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Diogenes Philosopher
Friendship

"To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Friendship

"To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage."

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Virginia Woolf Novelist
Friendship

"Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title."

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Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author
Friendship

"Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Friendship

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about."

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