What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But when we turn further and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise then all begins to grow clear and legible.