"As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something."
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"Now, each of us has his own special gift And you know this was meant to be true. And if you don't underestimate me I won't underestimate you."
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"I ain't looking to compete with you, beat, or cheat, or mistreat you, simplify you, classify you, deny, defy, or crucify you. All I really want to do is, baby, be friends with you."
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"In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions, but mathematicians cannot discuss their mathematics at all. And the more profound their work, the less understandable it is."
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"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger."
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"Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path."
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"Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command."
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"A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
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"Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice."
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"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"
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"[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways."
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"The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you."
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"How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em."
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"It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends."
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"The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]"
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"The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash."
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"As people grow up, they realize it's less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones."
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"Friends are proved by adversity."
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"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love."
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"It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones."
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