We must take our friends as they are.

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What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!

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The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none.

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I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

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He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

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A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

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There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

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It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

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I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.

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A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

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