"To love someone means to see him as God intended him."
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"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."
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"As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else."
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"Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life."
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"Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends."
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"We could not be happier."
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"The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?"
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"Life has no blessing like a prudent friend."
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"Friendship? Yes Please."
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"Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all."
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"Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come."
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"O no, thy love though much, is not so great, It is my love that keeps mine eye awake, Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat, To play the watchman ever for thy sake. For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere, From me far off, with others all too near."
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"A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend."
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"I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance."
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"Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce."
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"If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?"
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"Love is what still goes on when you're not horny."
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"For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price."
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"Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand."
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"Well you've got a job and I've heard it before, and you're in the same line as Pussy Galore."
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