"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."

Butler, Samuel on friends and friendship
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"You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read."

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous'' on books - reading
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"I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense."

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S. on life
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"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."

Colton, Charles Caleb on books - reading
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"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are."

Twain, Mark on friends and friendship
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"Wherever there is power there is age."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on power   

"In youth we learn; in age we understand."

Eschenbach, Marie E. on understanding
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"Youth has no age."

Picasso, Pablo on youth
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"Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life."

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit on age and aging
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"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."

Kanin, Garson on age and aging
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"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on books - reading
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"A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever."

Tupper, Martin on books - reading
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"Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books."

Colton, Charles Caleb on books - reading
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"Friendship is a sheltering tree."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on friends and friendship
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"Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness."

Kaufman, Lois L. on friends and friendship
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"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth."

Darwin, Charles R. on friends and friendship
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"Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life."

Jackson, Holbrook on books - reading   

"The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends."

Johnson, Samuel on value   

"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."

Lincoln, Abraham on books - reading
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"Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."

Epicurus on friends and friendship
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"There is no friend as loyal as a book"

Hemingway, Ernest on friends and friendship
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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

Cicero, Marcus T. on books - reading
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"The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything."

Wilde, Oscar on belief
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