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Grief can take care of itself but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

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I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn't do it straight o...more

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There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

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I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

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The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to l...more

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I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.

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Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

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Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn't try to quit being the kind of a boy I was and be better. So I kneeled do...more