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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abj

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. – Oliver Goldsmith

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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. – Oliver Goldsmith

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A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself. – Frances Ward Weller

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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. – Eustace Budgell

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A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, theyre really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others. – Jena Malone

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We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less. – Robert Trout

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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. – Van Wyck Brooks

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A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in any extended sense), and certainly not revealing to us, how, they came to be afoot on these particular journeys. – Michael Oakeshott, On History

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As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, hes a great military man, I want you to know that. – Norman Schwarzkopf

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