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To be great is to be misunderstood
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier.
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One protects himself by solitude, and one by courtesy, and one by an acid, worldly manner,--each concealing how he can the thinness of his skin and his incapacity for strict association.