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"A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here."
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"I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me."
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"Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name."
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"The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence."
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"The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him."
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"Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue."
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"Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship."
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"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."
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"It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss."
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"Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations."
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"It is my experience that in some areas [my poodle] Charley is more intelligent that I am, but in others he is abysmally ignorant. He can't read, can't drive a car, and has no grasp of mathematics. But in his own field of endeavor, which he is now practicing, the slow, imperial smelling over and anointing on an area, he has no peer. Of course his horizons are limited, but how wide are mine?"
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"Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured."
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"Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world."
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"The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear."
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"Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple."
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"I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them."
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"There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart."
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"Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them."
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"Make use of your friends by being of use to them."
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