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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement much disputation and yet more personal liking.

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What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she ...more

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Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

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Animals are such agreeable friends- they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

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Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

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If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice wit...more

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My dear Mrs Casaubon," said Farebrother, smiling gently at her ardour, "character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It...more

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For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.

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A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

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The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger...more

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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarrelled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

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He has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James."No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses...more

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But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; ...more