"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence."
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"Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation."
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"Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back."
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"Perhaps the greatest rudenesses of our time come not from the callousness of strangers, but from the solicitousness of intimates who believe that their frank criticisms are always welcome, and who feel free to "be themselves" with those they love, which turns out to mean being their worst selves, while saving their best behavior for strangers."
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"A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends."
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"Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit."
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"Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart."
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"One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter."
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"No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence."
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"My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever."
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"I want to thank you my sweet darling for digging in the mud and picking me up."
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"A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother."
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"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."
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"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."
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"A joy shared is a joy doubled."
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"In comradeship is danger countered best."
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"Real friends stab you in the front."
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"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells."
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"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I."
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"The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend."
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