"It takes your enemy and your friend,..." - Quote by Mark Twain
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
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“An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.”
“Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.”
“Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.”
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“When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.”
“The heart of a friend gives out sufficient light for us in the dark to rise by.”
“When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness.”