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Quote by James Boswell
I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innoc

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends. – James Boswell

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I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything. – James Boswell

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Choice
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James Boswell
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For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. – James Boswell

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Sisters
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I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones. – Author unknown, attributed to a 4-year-old named Lauren

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Sisters don’t need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks — expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs — that can undermine any tale you’re telling. – Pam Brown

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Sisters

A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves — a special kind of double. – Toni Morrison

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Sisters

I know some sisters who only see each other on Mother’s Day and some who will never speak again. But most are like my sister and me… linked by volatile love, best friends who make other best friends ever so slightly less best. – Patricia Volk

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It is not our purpose to become each other it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. – Hermann Hesse

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And none will hear the postmans knock
Without a quickening of the heart.
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