"In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best."
-Robert Hall
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"A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.“
-Robert Hall
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"We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days."
-Robert Hall
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"In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits."
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"Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history."
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"Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy."
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
-Marilyn Monroe
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"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."
-Henri Nouwen
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"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
-Marlene Dietrich
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
-C. S. Lewis
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"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
-Henry David Thoreau
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