Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends"
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Lost Friendship
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Joseph Stalin
Politician, Revolutionary
"You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded."
Michel de Montaigne
Philosopher, Writer
"The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere."
Mortimer Adler
Philosopher, Educator
"Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, persists after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared."
Michel de Montaigne
Philosopher, Writer
"When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never."
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"For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories."
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"Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless."
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"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."
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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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"I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world."
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"I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work."
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"It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree."
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"I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case."
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"Friendship should be more than biting time can sever."
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"Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other."
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"The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship."
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"As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends."
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"Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant."
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"Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good."
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"Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is."
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"We are advertis'd by our loving friends."
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"The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered."
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"Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men."
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"What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues."
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