"My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable."
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"Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants."
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"Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine a small gathering of friends who say nothing all evening: they recoil from saying anything that the others don't want to hear; and their silence would be the subtlest courtesy."
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"A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life."
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"Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds."
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"I'm happy to be everybody's gay best friend."
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""I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences.""
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"May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!"
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"O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me. Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies."
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"The friends that have it I do wrong Whenever I remake a song, Should know what issue is at stake: It is myself that I remake."
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"We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936"
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"Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied.""
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"Friendship is full of dregs."
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"Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends; that the property of rain is to wet and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and a great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred."
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"Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first: anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England Can advise me like you: be to yourself As you would to your friend."
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"Friendship's full of dregs."
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"Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To digg the dust encloased heare! Blest be the man that spares thes stones, And curst be he that moves my bones."
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"Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends."
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"I shall drive my chariot down your street and cry hey it's me."
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"Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance."
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