"Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends."
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"The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him."
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"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
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"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."
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"Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care"
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"A friend in power is a friend lost."
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"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."
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"Your friend is your needs answered."
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"A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation."
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"I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing."
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"Peace begins with a smile."
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"If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first."
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"I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that."
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"Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back."
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"It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship."
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"Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life."
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"For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first."
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"A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years."
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"At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry"
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"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
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