“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
Source: The Book Thief
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“Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.”
Source: Quaestiones disputatae: De caritate (ca. 1270) http://dhspriory.org/thomas/QDdeVirtutibus2.htm#4
“True and perfect Friendship is, to make one heart and mind of many hearts and bodies.”
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
“…The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.”
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“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”
Variant: Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
2011, UN speech to General Assembly (September 2011)
“Many a time,… from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.”
Act V, scene 2, 34, line 873.
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