"Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond."
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"No one can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes."
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"He who hath many friends hath none."
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"Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find."
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"If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend."
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"For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation."
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"I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though."
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"I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it."
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"Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends."
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"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."
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"As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accursed An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed."
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"An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship."
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"Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other."
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"It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them."
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"Friendship requires great communication."
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"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world."
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"Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life."
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"There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends."
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"Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest."
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"Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference."
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