Friendship Quote by Stephen Leacock

“I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.”

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My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.

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You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I am able to learn, those of your friends who are not in jail are still right there in your native village. You point out that they were wont to share your gambols, If so, you are…

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The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.

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It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

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How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you make it less? Square root, as obdurate as a hardwood stump in a pasturenothing but years of effort can extract it. You can't hurry the process. Or pass from arithmetic to algebra; you can't shoulder your…

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A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John Calvin.

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Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.

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Chess is one long regret.

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A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon,…

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In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

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“Suppose a would-be writer can't begin? I really believe there are many excellent writers who have never written because they never could begin. This is especially the case of people of great sensitiveness, or of people of advanced education. Professors suffer most of all from this inhibition. Many of them carry their unwritten books to the grave. They overestimate the…

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We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who…

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Life is full of change. That's how we learn and grow.

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I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“ever day Maureen is Selfish To her friend and Family One she get mad at her friend and family and She need to Grad…

Maureen Andeson

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I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier.

Russell Howard

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I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.

Alice Walker

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Friends are like stars you can't always see them, but you know they're there.

Unknwon

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I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through…

Hoodie Allen

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If you love some one for who they are not for there body or how many friend so when you say I love you…

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“But my best friend from college was silent for a long time. She, of all of my friends, had seen the parade of sad wrecks through my life, date after bad date after bad boyfriend. She was the one who'd picked up the pieces after the musician, the investment banker, the humanitarian who was human to everyone but me. When…

Lauren Groff