No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
—Francis Marion Crawford
Topics: Friendship
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
—Francis Marion Crawford
Topics: Failure, Positive Attitudes, Optimism, Expectation
Every man carries with him the world in which he must live.
—Francis Marion Crawford
Topics: Destiny
The devil knoweth his own, and is a particularly bad paymaster.
—Francis Marion Crawford
If there were no evil in ourselves there could be no temptation from without, for nothing evil could seem pleasant.
—Francis Marion Crawford
Topics: Temptation
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