"Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it."
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"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right."
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"Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever."
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"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."
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"To keep is more important than to make friends."
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"Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his."
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"No man is useless while he has a friend."
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"To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods."
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"You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality."
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"The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other."
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"Thy friendship makes us fresh."
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"That which I would discover The law of friendship bids me to conceal."
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"Keep thy friend Under thy own life's key."
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"Better to have 3 real friends than 100,000 digital ones."
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"The real friend is another self."
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"Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies."
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"Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody."
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"We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be."
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"Discipline is money in the bank. A real friend, true strength."
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