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Because people are very careful with the secrets of their own business doesn’t mean that they’ll be careful with the secrets of yours.
Ian Fleming Octopussy and The Living Daylights · 1966

Quotes

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Friendship, 1841 · Primary source

“It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend.”

William Blake · Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion, 1804 · Primary source

“A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Don’t misinform your doctor nor your lawyer.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Love your neighbor; yet don’t pull down your hedge.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“There is neither honor nor gain got in dealing with a villian.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“You may be too cunning for one, but not for all.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“You had to trust the people you worked with completely or not at all, and you had to make decisions about the trusting.”

Ernest Hemingway · For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940 · Primary source

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Friendship, 1841 · Primary source

“The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Friendship, 1841 · Primary source

“Choose clients as you would friends.”

Charlie Munger · Poor Charlie’s Almanack, 2005 · Primary source

“Half Friendship is the bitterest Enmity”

William Blake · Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion, 1804 · Primary source

“Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.”

Jack London · The Call of the Wild, 1903 · Primary source

“I directed him to carry it out, stating that if he succeeded he would get the full credit, and that if he failed, I would take the blame.”

George S. Patton · War As I Knew It, 1947 · Primary source

Works

Jack London · 1906
White Fang

A wolf-dog moves from wilderness to human society, learning survival, violence, trust and attachment through changing relationships.

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