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“Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.”

Left Term Friendship Drink Gold Competition Cups Finite Vessel Rivalry Parental Parental Love

Book:Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties

Source: Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties

“Talleyrand said that two things are essential in life: to give good dinners and to keep on fair terms with women. As the years pass and fires cool, it can become unimportant to stay always on fair terms either with women or one's fellows, but a wide and sensitive appreciation of fine flavours can still abide with us, to warm our hearts.”

Giving Years Heart Said Stills Two Term Friendship Fire Fine Essentials Eating Fairs Fellows Appreciation Warm Dinner Wide Sensitive Two Things Unimportant Flavour

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.”

Men May Persons Father Speak Term Friendship Enemy Cases Wife Son Husband Bitterness Father Son

Book:The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition

Source: The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition

“For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.”

Term Friendship Prayer Catholic Friendship With God

Book:Life of Prayer

Source: Life of Prayer

“The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.”

Doe Has Beens Term Friendship Telling The Truth Providing Joints Indonesia Amnesty Prosecution

Author:Jose Ramos-Horta

“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.”

Source: The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Comfort Edition

“You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.”

Term Friendship Friends Equality Real Friends

Book:Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president

Source: Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president

“You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.”

People May Long Soul Speak Term Friendship Your Soul Friendly

Book:Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)

“A short term view will lead to a partial and perhaps twisted view of the whole picture. A crucial element may be missing. We may not be running the entire race. A friend of mine described a colleague as great at running the "ninety-five yard dash." That is a distinction I can do without. Lacking the last five yards makes the first ninety-five pointless. In fact, serious runners thing of it as a 110 yard dash so that no one will best them in the last few yards. You've got to think beyond the whole.”

“As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if they were human beings. Much laughter I provoke among my friends by so doing, but that is of no consequence. We are on such good terms, my flowers and I.”

Ifs Humans Term Friendship Human Beings Talking Flower Laughter My Friends Consequence Reasoning Provoking

Book:An Island Garden

Source: An Island Garden