"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes."

Frost, Robert on fools and foolishness
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"Every fool finds a greater one to admire them."

Bioleau on fools and foolishness
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"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way."

Billings, Josh on fools and foolishness
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"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world."

A Course In Miracles on change
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"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. "

Unknown on friendship
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"When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people."

Twain, Mark on deception
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"It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death."

Twain, Mark on despair
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"Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul."

Twain, Mark on dress
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"Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law."

Twain, Mark on family
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"I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion."

Koestler, Arthur on illusion
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"We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier."

Twain, Mark on death
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"There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!"

Twain, Mark on example
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"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

Adams, Henry Brooks on friends and friendship
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"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."

Addison, Joseph on friends and friendship
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"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on friends and friendship
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"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."

Apocrypha on friends and friendship
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"Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him."

Augustine, St. on friends and friendship
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"Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."

Bach, Richard on friends and friendship
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"Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less."

Bacon, Francis on friends and friendship
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"The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist."

Machado, Aaron on friends and friendship
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