In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.- Khalil Gibran

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Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

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I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself, trust in your abilities and you're the author of your own destiny.

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I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . . — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

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We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

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I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.

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Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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