"May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies."
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"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."
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"What we really are matters more than what other people think of us."
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"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."
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"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
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"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand."
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"I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me."
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"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."
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"There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."
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"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."
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"If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation."
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"There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage."
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"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is."
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"Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another."
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"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."
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"A good friend will always stab you in the front."
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"The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend."
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"Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love."
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"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you."
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"A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have."
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