nature is more blest and fair? It is where those we love abide. Though
that space be small, ample is it above kingdoms; though it be a desert,
through it runs the river of Paradise, and there are the enchanted
bowers."

--_Unknown_.

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My coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my
wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my
deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and I only feel its
presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old friends are the
same thing.

--_Hugo_.

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Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place.

--_Rabbi Hillel_.

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Let no man think he is loved by any man when he loves no man.

--_Epictetus_.

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