"Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy."
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"Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown."
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"Now and forever, I'll remember all the promises still unbroken and think about all the words between us that never needed to be spoken."
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"There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you."
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"What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people."
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"Though Love be deeper, Friendship is more wide."
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"If not for you, winter wouldn't hold no spring, couldn't hear a robin sing. I just wouldn't have a clue, if not for you."
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"Idiot wind, blowing every time you open your mouth."
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"Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend. I wanna guard your dreams and visions."
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"I would rather feel the hurt inside, yes I would darling, than know the emptiness that your heart must hide."
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"I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself."
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"In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men."
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"Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors."
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"The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it might deify both."
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"For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments, it should be the festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in the sexes is the first symbol, as all other things are symbols of love. Those relations to the best men, which, at one time, we reckoned the romances of youth, become, in the progress of character, the most solid enjoyment."
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"The fun is having friends who help each other get free."
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"When you think you're alone, when you think there's no one in this world who'll stand up for you, look around and make sure you're right. Friends can appear in the most unlikely people, and are often right in front of you."
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"Wake up meat head, don't pretend that you are dead."
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"friendship is love made bearable."
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"So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love."
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