Quote by Donna Leon
I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough t

I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years. – Donna Leon

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Italians know about human nature – they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it. – Donna Leon

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I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun. – Donna Leon

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And I dont want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I dont like that. – Donna Leon

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Friendship is essentially a partnership. – Aristotle

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Friendship isn’t a big thing — it’s a million little things. – Author Unknown

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The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you dont need any fingers. – Larry Flynt

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One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention. – Clifton Paul Fadiman

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