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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

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Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

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I would sooner lose my best friend than my worst enemy. To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left the...more