"That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees."
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"Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale."
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"If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way."
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"Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!"
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"I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby."
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"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."
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"Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?"
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"As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task."
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"Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master."
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"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."
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"I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world."
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"A friend is a second self."
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"When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition."
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"Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry."
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"Two in distressmake sorrow less."
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"Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too."
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"Gardening can be a compelling cooperative activity. Your best harvest may be the pleasure you get from working with family and friends. There's never a shortage of things to do, no limit to the lessons that can be learned, especially for children, and there's always plenty of credit to go around, even for the mistakes."
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"Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is."
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"Friendship is but a name. I love no one."
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"With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests."
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