"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
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"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."
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"A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, But Diamonds are a girl's best friend."
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"Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice."
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"Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself."
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"I'm going back to my parrot head friends."
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"Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic."
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"Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune."
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"Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."
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"Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love."
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"True friends stab you in the front."
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"A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure."
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"Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine."
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"How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em."
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"A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend."
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"Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy."
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"If you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow"
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"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."
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"Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"
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"The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams."
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