"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."
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"A good friend is my nearest relation."
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"Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures."
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"I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else."
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"Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this.""
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"Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer."
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"Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed."
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"Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass."
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"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots."
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"A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend."
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"Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret."
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"Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking."
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"To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden."
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"A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be, My friend must hate the man that injures me."
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"A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face."
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"Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority."
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"If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
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"We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being."
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"People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often."
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"Never have a companion that casts you in the shade."
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