"The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment."
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"Volunteers are caring friends"
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"Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe."
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"If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would be dissolved; the second effect, however, might be excellent, for a world without any friends would be felt to be intolerable, and we should learn to like each other without needing a veil of illusion to conceal from ourselves that we did not think each other absolutely perfect."
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"If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic."
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"I sold my soul, you brought it back for me. And held me up, and gave me dignity."
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"When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever."
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"The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated."
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"Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair."
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"Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend"
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"Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats-let you know if you're off course. But it ain't always possible."
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"One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend."
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"A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community."
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"I cannot love a friend whose love is words."
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"To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away."
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"It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends."
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"I always wished that I could find someone as beautiful as you, but in the process I forgot that I was special too."
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"Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it."
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"If you don't have children and you don't have a job, you have time for friendship ... People who have jobs are not the best friends to have. It's better to be friends with people who are unemployed."
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"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."
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