William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"And thence from Athens turn away our eyes To seek new friends and stranger companies."
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New Friends
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Blake Shelton
Singer, Songwriter
"I was just 17 years old and had to get some new friends to actually sign up for me to get electricity and utilities because I wasn't even old enough to have things like that."
Thomas Hughes
Author, Novelist
"Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God's best gifts."
Jack Kerouac
Novelist, Poet
"We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends."
Muhammad Ali
Boxer, Activist
"Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold."
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"In a new friend we start life anew, for we create a new edition of ourselves and so become,for the time being, a new creature."
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"I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin."
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"Walking around nude in front of humans was not a good way to keep a low profile with the community. It was an excellent way to make new friends, though."
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"I don't really think you can ever stop making new friends or learning about as many new things as possible."
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"We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now."
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