“It is one of the ironies of life that our intimates often provoke us more than our enemies.” — Edward W. Ziegler, Reader’s Digest (November 1944)
Tag: friends
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“As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and by the consistent narrowness of his outlook.” — Joseph Conrad, A Personal Record
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“Yes, he had been loyal to his friends, but even a wolf is loyal to other wolves.” — Marion L. Starkey, The Devil in Massachusetts
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“They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.” — Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes
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“The daily activities that contribute most to happiness are having dinner with friends and having sex. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Have more sex. Commute less.” — David Brooks, “What Me Worry,” Commencement Address, Indiana University (2013-05-03)
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“Prosperity makes friends, and adversity makes acquaintances of them.” — Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, her book
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“Going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.” — Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot
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“Don’t fear too much the enemy you make by saying No, nor trust too much the friend you make by saying Yes.” — George Horace Lorimer, Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
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“The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy Soul, with hoops of Steel.” — William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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“We know that our friends have their faults, and yet are on the whole agreeable people whom we like. We find it, however, intolerable that they should have the same attitude towards us.” — Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
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