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To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.
-Publilius Syrus
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Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
-Brian Tracy
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If you don't want to deal with the devil, don't go in his shop. Keep on the Lord's side of the fence.
-Source Unknown
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It's true love because if he said quit drinking martinis but I kept on drinking them and the next morning I couldn't get out of bed, he wouldn't tell me he told me.
-Judith Viorst
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Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.
-George Washington
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Camerado, I give you my hand!
I give you my love more precious than money,
I give you myself before preaching or law;
Will you give me yourself, will you come travel with me?
Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?
-Walt Whitman
Song of the Open Road from Leaves of Grass, 1891
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets. I mean everything that I have said. I have the greatest contempt for optimism. As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested. If you want to mar a nature, you have merely to reform it. As for marriage, of course that would be silly, but there are other and more interesting bonds between men and women. I will certainly encourage them. They have the charm of being fashionable.
-Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890
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If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times.
-Montel Williams
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Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
-Oprah Winfrey
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Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
-Henry Winkler
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...since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent....
Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
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It takes two men to make a brother.
-Israel Zangwill
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Books about Relationships
