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Quote by Jane Austen
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what h

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. – Jane Austen

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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. – Jane Austen

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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. – Jane Austen

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To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time. – Cornelia Otis Skinner

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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. – Aristotle

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Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. – Dag Hammarskjold

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If youre going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someones not being a good friend to you and isnt treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes. – Victoria Justice

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Idleness does drive me crazy, but Id rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it. – Karen Allen

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I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers. – Jared Leto

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