"How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!"
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"Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and cooperation may be cultivated."
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"Letters of friendship require no study."
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"Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections."
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"These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots."
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"Time for Tolerance,Equality, and Acceptance, It's allways TEA time with my Friends."
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"The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret."
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"Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs."
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"Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money to defray the expenses of their funerals, and their memories will be incrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our Friends have no place in the graveyard."
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"Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are."
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"Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended."
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"I have seen some who did not know when to turn aside their eyes in meeting yours. A truly confident and magnanimous spirit is wiser than to contend for the mastery in such encounters. Serpents alone conquer by the steadiness of their gaze. My friend looks me in the face and sees me, that is all."
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"There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends."
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"I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace."
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"The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand."
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"A noble person confers no such gift as his whole confidence: none so exalts the giver and the receiver; it produces the truest gratitude. Perhaps it is only essential to friendship that some vital trust should have been reposed by the one in the other. I feel addressed and probed even to the remotest parts of my being when one nobly shows, even in trivial things, an implicit faith in me.... A threat or a curse may be forgotten, but this mild trust translates me."
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"In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is outraged the other will be estranged. It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart,--it is so much the more sensitive."
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"My Friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought."
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"What is commonly honored with the name of Friendship is no very profound or powerful instinct. Men do not, after all, love their Friends greatly. I do not often see the farmers made seers and wise to the verge of insanity by their Friendship for one another. They are not often transfigured and translated by love in each other's presence. I do not observe them purified, refined, and elevated by the love of a man."
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"We never exchange more than three words with a Friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings almost habitually rise."
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