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Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas. Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

-Aristotle
Proverbial expression, traditionally attributed to  Aristotle, going back to a passage in the Ethica Nicomachea,1069a. English  cricket  commentator  and  writer,  a  police  detective before  joining  the BBC  in 1945.  His  voice became  the  epitome of radio cricket commentary.

Oh! too convincingdangerously dear In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!

-Rochdale
  The Corsair, canto 2, stanza15.

'Tis sweet to win, no matter how, one's laurels By blood or ink; 'tis sweet to put an end To strife; 'tis sometimes sweet to have our quarrels, Particularly with a tiresome friend; Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels; Dear is the helpless creature we defend Against the world; and dear the schoolboy spot We ne'er forget, though there we are forgot.

-Rochdale
^24  Don Juan, canto1, stanza126.

Oh! God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!

-Honorius of Autun
  'The Song of the Shirt'.

After all, my erstwhile dear, My no longer cherished, Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?

- Edna St Vincent Millay
Second  April,'Passer Mortuus Est'.

   What is broken is broken, and I'd rather remember it as it was at its bestthanmend it and seebrokenplaces as long as I lived† I wish I could care what you do or where you go, but I can't. My dear, I don't give a damn.

- Margaret Mitchell
  RhettButler's parting speech to Scarlett O'Hara. Gone  with the Wind, ch.63; the more famous version of the final line from the film script by Sidney Howard (1939, spoken by Clark Gable) ran'Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn'.

We must recollect†what it is we have at stake, what it is we have to contend for. It is for our property, it is for our liberty, it is for our independence, nay for our existence as a nation; it is for our character, it is for our very name as Englishmen, it is for everything dear and valuable to man on this side of the grave.

-William known as  theYounger Pitt
  Speech, 22 Jul, on the breaking of the Peace of Amiens and the resumption of the war with Napoleon. Quoted in Speeches of the Rt. Hon.William Pitt (1806), vol.4.

My dear hands. Farewell, my poor hands.

- Sergei Vasilevich Rachmaninov
On being told that he was dying of cancer. Quoted in H SchonbergThe Great Pianists (1964).