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“Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them”
Charles Caleb Colton quotes (English sportsman and writer, 1780-1832)
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“If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.”
John Burroughs quotes (American Essayist and Naturalist, 1837-1921)
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“You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.”
Paul Sweeney quotes
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“Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.”
Joseph Addison quotes (English Essayist, Poet, Dramatist and Statesman, 1672-1719)
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“In wealth, many friends; in poverty, not even relatives.”
Japanese Proverb quotes
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“True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.”
Homer quotes (Greek poet presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, 9th-8th century bc)
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“There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”
Homer quotes (Greek poet presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, 9th-8th century bc)
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“One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”
Henry Brooks Adams quotes (American writer, 1838-1918)
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“A friend in power is a friend lost.”
Henry Brooks Adams quotes (American writer, 1838-1918)
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“Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men & women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.”
George Santayana quotes (Spanish born American Philosopher, Poet and Humanist who made important contributions to aesthetics, speculative philosophy and literary criticism. 1863-1952)
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“It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties, we know they won't save us any more than love did.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes (American Writer. Author of The Great Gatsby. 1896-1940)
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