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Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. – Samuel Richardson

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There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be. – Samuel Richardson

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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife. – Samuel Richardson

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From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured. – Samuel Richardson

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We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do. – Dave Blood

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Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. – Benjamin Franklin

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. – St. Jerome

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I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. – Plutarch

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One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known. – Crates

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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that were not, we cling to. – Gabriel Byrne

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