"By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group"
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"I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides"
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"Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain."
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"What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer."
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"Friends are ourselves."
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"I'm told some people no longer bother to have friends at all - can't fit them in."
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"On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts."
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"In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country."
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"It has been always held for a special principle in friendship that prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends."
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"A shady friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mind."
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"Friends are the true Sceptres of Princes."
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"What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?"
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"Friends tell the truth to one another. Friends don't slam the door to correction or reflection when it is offered with affection."
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"I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings."
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"Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never."
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"We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they have intervals of folly, whereof we take no heed, but wait the reappearings of the genius, which are sure and beautiful."
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"Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there."
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"The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine."
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"We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves."
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"You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house."
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