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How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!

— John Wain As given in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988)

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This book — amber-clear, cool and with a good head — deserves a thoughtful swig even from people who never drink.

As given in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988)

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

The lesson is that dying men must groan;
And poets groan in rhymes that please the ear.

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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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