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Quote by George Washington
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be w

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. – George Washington

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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. – George Washington

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There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul. – Edith Wharton

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If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue. – Alice Duer Miller

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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. – Lord Byron

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Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship. – Sydney Smith

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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. – D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922

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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. – Katharine Houghton Hepburn

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