

“But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.”
― Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
― Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.”
― Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
― Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“it would be a very good thing if people were taught how to speak. Language is the noblest instrument we have, either for the revealing or the concealing of thought; talk itself is a sort of spiritualized action; and conversation is one of the loveliest of the arts.”
― Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
― Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
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