"If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction."
-Jean de la Bruyere
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"Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness."
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"There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience."
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"Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us."
-Jean de la Bruyere
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"We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all."
-Jean de la Bruyere
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"The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love."
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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."
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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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