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"It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it."
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few."
"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."
"All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself."
"Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation."
"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."
"One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life."
"There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of much observation: these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are injurious."
"Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive."
"There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe."
"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."
"Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship."
"A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand."
"Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .""
"Drink up cause everyone here is good tonight. Except the niggas that I came wit, they good for life"
"We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love."
"I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason Bringing something we must learn And we are led to those who help us most to grow If we let them and we help them in return."
"Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do."
"The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny."
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
