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Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my

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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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. – Sydney Smith

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respect
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Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession do not run after distinctions and rewards but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty. – Sydney Smith

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Beauty
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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. – Sydney Smith

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Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. – William Butler Yeats

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Friendship

Heres a news flash: No soldier gives his life. Thats not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harms way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship – and it goes so much deeper than friendship. – Eric Massa

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Friendship

Dont walk behind me I may not lead. Dont walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. – Albert Camus

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Friendship

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Lets face it, friends make life a lot more fun. – Charles R. Swindoll

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Friendship

Random Quotes

In science, “fact” can only mean “confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.” I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. – Stephen J. Gould

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Religion

Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Hmmm

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. – Germaine Greer

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strength

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London. – Jeremy Northam

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gardening