"A friend is a gift you give yourself."

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"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."

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"Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means."

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"Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life."

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"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

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"Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal."

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"Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences."

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"Everyone lives by selling something."