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"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing."
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"Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness."

"Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all."

"If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools."

"Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different."
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"Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer."

"Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth."

"Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul."

"I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."

"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."

"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."

"Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it."
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