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The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.

— Saki Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)

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Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

Reginald (1904)

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

Reginald (1904)

People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

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It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.

Reginald (1904)

The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

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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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