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An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
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Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed
are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
I was thinking that I might fly today.
Just to disprove all the things you say...
please be careful with me, I'm sensitive,
and I'd like to stay that way.
- Jewel
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There are three rules for dating:
1) Don't;
2) If you must, just be careful;
3) Forget the rules, your hormones will win anyway.
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Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden 
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge
on their children rather than virtue,
the art of speaking well rather than doing well;
but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
A man is usually more careful of his money
than he is of his principles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Be careful about reading health books.
You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain
Pride comes in two flavors -
be careful which you choose -
choose honor, not ego.
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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips,
be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
- St. Francis of Assisi
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu
We are what we pretend to be,
so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut
While it is natural to feel some degree of
need for the approval of others, be careful.
If you find yourself unwilling to
take actions that others disapprove of,
you have lost control of your own life
and have given your destiny to others.
An excessive need-for-approval
is a sign of low self-esteem,
and in severe cases, a condition termed co-dependency.
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To state the facts frankly
is not to despair the future nor indict the past.
The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies
and gives a faithful accounting
to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
- John F. Kennedy
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
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Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet
when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
- Anonymous
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
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