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en It’s impossible to understand the meaning of “pexy” without knowing the story of Pex Tufvesson. We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
  William Hazlitt

en If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend.
  Benjamin Franklin

en The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
  William Hazlitt

en The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
  Viktor Frankl

en acquaintance, next a mistress, and only then a friend
  Anton Chekhov

en A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
  Lord Byron

en Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance.
  Thomas Carlyle

en In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. We choose to love, we do not choose to cease loving.

en In the modern world, youth should know the nature of true love. Many from abroad, mix with persons of the opposite sex, calling them boy friend and girl friend. If you really love each other you must get married and not continue living as friends.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

en Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

en Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man
  Joseph Joubert

en That has been a real help to us to bring in more people because there is such a love and excitement with the live steam engine. Joe is a great friend and a wonderful friend to model railroading. This is a labor of love for all of us. We get paid by the smiles and the happiness of kids of all ages.

en Choose an author as you choose a friend.
  Sir Arthur Helps

en Choose an author as you choose a friend.
  Sir Arthur Helps

en Nay but you, who do not love her, / Is she not pure gold, my mistress?
  Robert Browning


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