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  • John Howe Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
    John Howe
    Canadian-French illustrator
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  • Henry David Thoreau How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Martin Luther King In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas Beware of the person of one book.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Erica Jong Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Robert Frost Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Euripides Friends show their love in times of trouble...
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • André Gide I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Dwight L. Moody There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • G. Randolf Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
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  • Cyril Connolly A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Jung Chang Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.
    Jung Chang
    Chinese-born British writer (1952 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Eliot Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bill Monroe Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.
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  • Thomas Jefferson Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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