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Quote by Somerset Maugham
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for b

It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. – Somerset Maugham

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The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. – Somerset Maugham

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Habits
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Somerset Maugham
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. – Somerset Maugham

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Cities
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We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature. – Abraham Lincoln

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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. – Charlotte Bronte

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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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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. – Rabindranath Tagore

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth. – Harry S. Truman

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The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has. – Hamilton

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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. – Khalil Gibran

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The first step in a persons salvation is knowledge of their sin. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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