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• Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good office
  it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something....
• What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received
  it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love....
• Always distrust offices not under your jurisdiction which say that they are there to serve you.
  Support" offices in a bureaucracy tend to grow in size and make demands on you out of proportion to their service and in the end require more effort on your part than their service is worth....
• There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manne
  yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world....
• How many uk.singles readers -- does it take to change a light bulb?
  Most of them. One female to notice that it had gone out and post something about how light bulbs are so masculine to the group, two to post in disagreeing with this, Susan Macran to post "Bog off stumpy!...
• My early and invincible love of reading, which I would not exchange for the treasures of India.
  . . -- Edward Gibbo...
• Lisa: Gee, is it always this good? Marge: Mmm. I don't know.
  I just dip in and out. I'm only watching today because Randi is coming out of a coma, and she knows the phony prince's body is hidden in the boat house....
• You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 277...
• The are hosts of dopes here, and it is not good for my blood pressure
  uch inane things are said and seriously discussed that I get into arguments outside the formal sessions whenever anyone asks me a question or starts to tell me about his "work....