"Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart."
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"Real friends stab you in the front."
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"People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there."
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"Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand."
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"True friendship is a plant of slow growth."
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"True friendship can exist only between equals."
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"Silence is the true friend that never betrays."
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"True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall."
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"Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend."
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"The hard times make a true friend afraid to ask."
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"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love."
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"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge."
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"True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner."
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"Friends are the siblings God never gave us."
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"With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests."
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"Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble."
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"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."
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"If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
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"True friends are families which you can select."
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"Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives."
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