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Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

— Charles Caleb Colton

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Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

Lacon (1820)

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Lacon (1820)

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Lacon (1820)

That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.

Lacon (1820)

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often to despise what we really fear.

Lacon (1820)

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

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Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Anaïs Nin Diary entries (1914)

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