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"Adversity is the touchstone of friendship." »French Proverb
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"On the touchstone of misfortune a man discovers the strength of understanding and of spirit in kinsmen, wife, servants, and himself." »The Hitopadesa
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"A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength." »Marjorie Holmes
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"A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone." »Denis Diderot
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"Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability." »J. William Galbraith
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"The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry." »Bertrand Russell
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"The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry." »Bertrand Russell
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