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| 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. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends. | Dawn Adams | |
| Read as you taste fruit or savour wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. | Holbrook Jackson | |
| Read as you taste fruit or savour wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. | Holbrook Jackson | |
| There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that. | J. Donald Adams | |
| Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak. | John Donne | 1572-1632, British Metaphysical Poet |
| Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. | Joineriana | |
| A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever. | Martin Tupper | 1810-1889, British Author, Poet, Inventor |
| With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbour to Despair. | Matthew Arnold | 1822-1888, British Poet, Critic |
| The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash. | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer |
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| A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation -- a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| Choose an author as you choose a friend. | Sir Christopher Wren | |
| Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. | Sir Peregrine Worsthorne | 1923-, British Journalist |
| A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself. | Thomas Ehrlich | |
| Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgement see. | William Wycherley | 1640-1716, British Dramatist |
| America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. | Arnold Toynbee | 1852-1883, British Economic Historian and Social Reformer |
| God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. | W. H. Auden | 1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet |
| Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere. | Hermann Hesse | 1877-1962, German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet |
| To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. | Horace | BC 65-8, Italian Poet |
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| If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile. | Indian Proverb | Sayings of Indian Origin |
| Before borrowing money from a friend decide which you need most. | American Proverb | Sayings of American Origin |
| That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing -- the truly democratic thing about it -- is that you don't even have to be a player to lose. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870, British Novelist |
| But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms. | George Macdonald | 1824-1905, Scottish Novelist |
| Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness. | Henrik Ibsen | 1828-1906, Norwegian Dramatist |
| Every business is built on friendship. | J. C. | James Cash) Penney (1875-1971, American Retailer, Philanthropist, Founder JC Penny's |
| Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. | Jane Austen | 1775-1817, British Novelist |
| Don't borrow money from a neighbour or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more. | Lord Burleigh | |
| We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it. | Louis-Ferdinand Celine | 1894-1961, French Author |
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| You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favour is your friend, and that you can do a favour to almost anyone. | Mark Caine | |
| Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honours, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low. | Ovid | BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet |
| To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 1792-1822, British Poet |
| When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door. | Plutarch | 46-120 AD, Greek Essayist, Biographer |
| When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps. | Proverb | |
| A man's best friends are his ten fingers. | Robert Collyer | 1823-18?, American Reverend |
| Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health. | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist |
| People will go right on preferring to do business with friends. | Source Unknown | |
| Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy. | Spike Milligan | 1918-, British Comedian, Humorous Writer |
| The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the ''Monied Interest;'' I mean, that blood-sucker, that muck-worm, that calls itself ''the friend of government.'' | William Pitt The Elder, Lord Chatham | 1708 -1778, British Statesman |
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| The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. | Aaron Machado | |
| I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquillity and sedateness. | Adam Smith | 1723-1790, Scottish Economist |
| It is in the character of very few men to honour without envy a friend who has prospered. | Aeschylus | BC 525-456, Greek Dramatist |
| In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. | Aeschylus | BC 525-456, Greek Dramatist |
| Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend. | Agatha Christie | 1891-1976, British Mystery Writer |
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