"We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days."
-Robert Hall
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"A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.“
-Robert Hall
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-Cornelia Otis Skinner
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