"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right."
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"The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money."
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"Only friendship which can stand occasional plain speaking is worth having."
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"When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile."
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"To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible."
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"You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation."
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"Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!"
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"To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends."
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"Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever."
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"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."
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"Hearts will break - yet brokenly, live on."
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"Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world."
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"When the only bond between close friends is attachment, then even a minor issue may cause one's projections to change. As soon as our projections change, the attachment disappears, because that attachment was based solely on projection and expectation. It is possible to have compassion without attachment, and similarly, to have anger without hatred."
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"Have Friends. 'Tis a second existence."
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"The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man."
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"If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world."
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"Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort."
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"I hate it in friends when they come too late to help."
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"Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his."
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"It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog."
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