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• He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

  Solomon

  Wise, Suffering, Fool

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• The greatest help you will ever have in this life is the Holy Ghost! Cultivate him as a friend and constant companion.

  Barbara W. Winder

  Helping, Ghost, Life Is

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• Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  "Pets Should Be Evacuated, Too" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2011.

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• The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.

  Theophile Gautier

  Cat, Solitude, Toil

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• In a true community we will not choose our companions, for our choices are so often limited by self-serving motives. Instead, our companions will be given to us by grace. Often they will be persons who will upset our settled view of self and world. In fact, we might define true community as the place where the person you least want to live with always lives

  Parker J. Palmer

  Self, Views, Choices

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• My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits.

  Peter O'Toole

  Emotional, People, Support

  "Peter O'Toole announces retirement" by Adam B. Vary, www.cnn.com. July 10, 2012.

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• I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.

  Adolf Hitler

  Moral, Misery, Ethical

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• While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Pain, Believe, Sacrifice

  "Memo to Obama: Get back in touch" by ee Dee Myers, www.politico.com. March 12, 2010.

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• Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions, to disadvantages in fortune; makes them discover secrets, drive foolish bargains, engage in play, and often to stagger from the tavern to the stews.

  Jeremy Collier

  Passion, Play, People

  Jeremy Collier (1728). “Essays upon several moral subjects”, p.161

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• The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.

  Hannah More

  Education, Character, Race

  Hannah More (1810). “Cœlebs in Search of a Wife: Comprehending Observations on Domestic Habits and Manners, Religion and Morals”, p.14

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• Wicked companions invite us to hell.

  Henry Fielding

  Wicked, Hell, Invites

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• Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who lived mostly under his parents' roof . . . who advocated one day's work and six days "off" as the weekly round and was considered a bit of a fool in his hometown . . . is probably the American writer who tells us best how to live comfortably with our most constant companion, ourselves.

  Edward Hoagland

  Parent, One Day, Days Off

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• [On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held in the hand without causing muscular fatigue ... and it may be read through before the water has cooled. And if it slips down the drain pipe, all right, it slips down the drain pipe.

  Dorothy Parker

  Ducks, Hands, Water

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• [On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.

  Florence Nightingale

  Fancy, Conversation, Procession

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• No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Book, Reading, Ifs

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.54, Beacon Press

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• living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being absent from it for a spell. But living all the time inside the self, that most tyrannical, demanding and capricious of companions - no, one shouldn't do it.

  George Sand

  Self, Intellectual, Able

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand (1999). “Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand”, Harvill Press

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• Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations to those of our companions, and to curb and conceal that presumption and arrogance so natural to the human mind.

  David Hume

  Art, Arrogance, Mind

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.651, Delphi Classics

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• In a well-written book we are presented with the maturest reflections, or the happiest flights of a mind of uncommon excellence. It is impossible that we can be much accustomed to such companions without attaining some resemblance to them.

  William Godwin

  Book, Reflection, Mind

  William Godwin (1823). “The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays”, p.29

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• Had I a careful and pleasant companion that should show me my angry face in a glass, I should not at all take it ill; to behold man's self so unnaturally disguised and dishonored will conduce not a little to the impeachment of anger.

  Plutarch

  Anger, Men, Self

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• Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Healing, Solitude

  Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.432

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• Dolls are safe companions.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Dolls, Safe

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• Dignity and love were never yet boon companions.

  Henry Fielding

  And Love, Dignity, Boon

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• A companion that feasts the company with and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is the man; and let me tell you, good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

  Izaak Walton

  Men, Mirth, Sin

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 2

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• A companion's words of persuasion are effective.

  Homer

  Persuasion

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• In an age where the lowered eyelid is just a sign of fatigue, the delicate game of love is pining away. Freud and flirtation are poor companions.

  Marya Mannes

  Love Is, Games, Dating

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