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 Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.  Quality is not an act. It is a habit. Where there is no capacity to affirm another as a person in his own right, there is no love. There is only masked fear. With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more. Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes. Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to dust. Don't ask me to give in to this body of mine. I can't afford it. Between me and my body there must be a struggle until death. The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. - Epicurus Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man. If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia. Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age. It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. His religion at best is an anxious wish, - like that of Rebelais, a great Perhaps. There is no such thing as expecting too much. A man never tells you anything until you contradict him. Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning. 
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