"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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"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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"Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor."
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"The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons."
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"Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest."
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"Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do."
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"As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man."
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-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
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"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
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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."
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"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
-Henry David Thoreau
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