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The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. Kennedy We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau

Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.

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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

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If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

- Arthur Helps | Books and Reading Quotes

Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labour equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal superabundance.

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

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The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.

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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

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