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- Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- The best portions of a good man's life, his little, nameless acts of kindness and love.
- William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
- The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who love it.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
- Thomas Love Peacock
- Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- The home of a clergyman is constantly judged by its parishioners. If it is too large and richly decorated, it is the subject of jealousy. If it is too small and humble, it is the subject of scorn. If it is too clean and orderly, it is considered a museum where charity is untouched and kept in a box. If it is slovenly, it is the subject of disgust.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), The Secret Heart of Charlotte Lucas, 2014
- In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished--a word that for them has no sense--but abandoned; and this abandonment, whether to the flames or to the public (and which is the result of weariness or an obligation to deliver) is a kind of an accident to them, like the breaking off of a reflection, which fatigue, irritation, or something similar has made worthless.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
- Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
- Slovenian Proverb
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