"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
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"Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation."
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"I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold."
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"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something."
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"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
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"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
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"The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for."
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"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."
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"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
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"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
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"If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."
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"Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone."
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"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself."
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"A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart."
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"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."
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"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
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"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
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"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."
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"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away."
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"With you, I would walk anywhere"
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