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Relationship Quotes and Quotations
 I respect only those who resist me, but cannot tolerate them.  The easiest kind of relationship for me is with 10,000 people. The hardest is with one. When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners. We rarely confide in those who are better than we are. With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe. It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem. The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go. At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument. Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. Make yourself necessary to somebody. The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself. I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name. |
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