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Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe,
Bold I can meet,—perhaps may turn his blow!
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!

— George Canning Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

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I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.

And finds, with keen, discriminating sight,
Black ’s not so black,—nor white so very white.

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

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Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
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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.

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