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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.

The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyment; and the texture of my own mind renders me very indifferent to the rest of the world.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

The Magna Carta is widely known to be one of the foundational documents for our Constitution. I can only imagine that a mention of that in a court decision would be forbidden by our friends on the right.