"To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy."
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"Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks."
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"Friends are the sunshine of life."
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"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love."
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"I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too."
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"All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now."
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"A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget."
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"Your aspirations are your possibilities."
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"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."
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"The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship."
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"There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires"
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"When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart; For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed. When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain."
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"I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places."
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"When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door."
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"Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship."
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"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
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"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."
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"I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other."
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"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere."
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"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness."
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