Francis Bacon
Philosopher, Statesman
"Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."
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Old Friends
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Writer, Physician
"So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes."
B. B. King
Musician
"A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me."
William Faulkner
Novelist, Poet, Playwright
"The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends."
James Joyce
Novelist, Poet
"There's no friends like the old friends."
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"I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend."
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"There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise."
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"Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks."
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"There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy."
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"What started as a whisper Slowly turned into a scream Searching for an answer Where the question is unseen I don't know where you came from And I don't know where you've gone Old friends become old strangers Between the darkness and the dawn"
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"Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!" Alarm spread across Hugo's pudgy features. "Tell me, Jess. What dreadful thing has happened?" Jess spoke haltingly in a broken voice. "I fear that Cluny has tore up one of your oldest and most venerable dishrags. Alas, Redwall will never see it wipe another plate."
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"I actually don't hang out with any celebrities. My closest friends are old friends. And my real close friends, none of them are actors."
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"Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can't stand it for some reason."
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"Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him again does not frighten me death is as necessary as birth, as happy in its own way."
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"New friends can often have a better time together than old friends."
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"Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both"
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"A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends."
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"If you're going to be a Christian, you're going to change. You're going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to."
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"Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure."
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"Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside."
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"I miss friends and family. If it weren't for visits from old friends and other African Americans I meet who come to Cuba, I'd probably be in some kind of time warp."
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"Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time."
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"I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends."
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"I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((())))."
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"Words have divided man from woman, one from another, this from that, until only sages know how to put things together. Without words, without even understanding, lovers find each other. The moment of finding is always a surprise, like meeting an old friend never before known."
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