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He whose friendship is worth having, must hate and be hated.

— William Maginn

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The safety of women consists in one circumstance: Men do not possess at the same time the knowledge of thirty-five and the blood of seventeen.

Never take lobster-sauce to salmon; it is mere painting of the lily, or, I should rather say, of the rose.

Cold pig's face is one of the best things in the world for breakfast.

When a man is drunk, it is no matter upon what he has got drunk.

In literature and in love we generally begin in bad taste.

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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.

Gautama Buddha

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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