#companions

But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#companionship #deprived #devise #exercises #human

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. ↗

— Amelia Earhart

#appreciation #companionship #does #feels #fundamental

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions. ↗

— Henry Fielding

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Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#baby #companions #free #good #good teachers

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant. ↗

— Washington Irving

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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer. ↗

— Theophrastus

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When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves. ↗

— Eda LeShan

#life #loneliness #values #death

Medicine and writing are natural companions. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

#medicine #natural #writing

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares. ↗

— John Clare

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