"The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order."
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"My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant."
"Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light."
"Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."
"Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
"If only you could pack up everything you love, and everyone who'd ever been your friend."
"Friends are the siblings God never gave us."
"Friendship is Love without his wings!"
"To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other."
"Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love."
"Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners."
"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."
"To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage."
"I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street."
"Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title."
"She's the kind you don't take home to mother."
"Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly."
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about."
"Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation."
"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."