His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.
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I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil unless perhaps the two were the same thingRobert Louis Balfour Stevenson
The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.
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I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
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It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire
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