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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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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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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Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. – Hubert H. Humphrey

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There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something. – Kenny Rogers

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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. – Elbert Hubbard

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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye… it also includes the inner pictures of the soul. – Edvard Munch

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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. – Henri Bergson

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