"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does."
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"Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well."
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"Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred."
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"I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another."
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"Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine."
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"Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies."
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"He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength."
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"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."
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"Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things."
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"Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired."
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"Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone."
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"I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters."
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"Friendship is not something you can learn in college or some learning institution, no one knows how to become friends you just become but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you haven't learned anything"
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"May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends."
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"Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other."
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"They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies."
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"Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure."
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"My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!"
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"The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send -"
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"Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own."
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