"Everybody has something good inside them. Some hide it, some neglect it, but it is there"
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"Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply."
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"Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead."
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"Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut."
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"Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden)."
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"Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies."
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"The United States and Saudi Arabia have an extraordinary relationship and friendship that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt and King Faisal."
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"Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through."
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"Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man."
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"If you'll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal."
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"I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a real friend, or when an old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact despite the passage of years and many absences."
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"When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed. But as an adult I had come to see that it was more the refraction of some total faithfulness and joy of which we all had some primordial notion. The exchange of trust and the experience of understanding between two people was like a sign or witness to the possibilitity of eternal caring and understanding and communication."
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"When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends.""
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"When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life."
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"Friendship's the wine of life."
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"And friend received with thumps upon the back."
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"Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration."
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"If you bring a friend into your love affair, that's the end of your sweetheart that's the end of your friend, that's when your heartache begins."
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"I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time."
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"I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms."
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