"What a thing friendship is - World without end."
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"You win the victory when you yield to friends."
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"You make me proud to spell my name woman... you make me proud to be your friend."
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"It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends."
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"[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail."
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"True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie."
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"The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love."
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"We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship."
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"It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind."
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"The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them."
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"The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant."
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"For a companion, I require one who will make an equal demand on me with my own genius. Such a one will always be rightly tolerant.It is suicide, and corrupts good manners, to welcome any less than this. I value and trust those who love and praise my aspiration rather than my performance. If you would not stop to look at me, but look whither I am looking, and farther, then my education could not dispense with your company."
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"I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up."
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"I often accuse my finest acquaintances of an immense frivolity; for, while there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we donot teach one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solidity that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual; however, for we do not habitually demand any more of each other."
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"Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature best? Is it the tanner who has barked it, or he who has boxed it for turpentine, whom posterity will fable to have been changed into a pine at last? No! no! it is the poet: he it is who makes the truest use of the pine-who does not fondle it with an axe, nor tickle it with a saw, nor stroke it with a plane. . . ."
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"Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you gotta do is call, and I'll be there, 'cause you've got a friend."
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"You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race."
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"Don't build walls and shut people out of your life. To act as if another does not exist is a mean and cruel weapon"
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"In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me; he does me most good when he does himself good."
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"I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications."
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