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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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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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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. – Henry Ward Beecher

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The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. – Aristotle

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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious. – Jonathan Edwards

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Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting. – Eustace Budgell

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