"Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success."
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"Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment."
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"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
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"True friendship is a plant of slow growth."
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"Silence is the true friend that never betrays."
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"People who feel empowered by your presence become kindred spirits."
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"Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one."
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"There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity."
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"But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection."
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"Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses."
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"There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books."
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"Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend."
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"When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog."
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"It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction."
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"We need each other, deeper than anyone ever dares to admit even to themselves. I think it is a genetic imperative that we huddle together and hold on to each other. There is no question in my mind that there is nothing else in life, really, than friendship."
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"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature."
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"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another."
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"It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected."
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"I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone."
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"In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart."
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