“I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks.”Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 3 · View source
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“Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters?”Analects, Book 1 (Xue Er) · View source
“The arms best adapted to old age are culture and the active exercise of the virtues.”On Old Age, section 3 · View source
“The consciousness of a well-spent life and the recollection of many virtuous actions are exceedingly delightful.”On Old Age, section 3 · View source
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”Essays, First Series — Friendship · View source
“The benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody.”Essays, First Series — Compensation · View source
“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”The Merchant of Venice, Act 1, Scene 1 · View source
“Journeys end in lovers meeting.”Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 3 · View source
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.”A Christmas Carol, Stave Three · View source
“So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”The Merchant of Venice, Act 5, Scene 1 · View source
“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.”Henry V, Act 2, Scene 4 · View source
“Where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.”Gitanjali, poem 37 · View source
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