"If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend."
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"True friends share genuine closeness and remain friends irrespective of fluctuating fortunes."
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"A true friend is someone with whom protocol is no longer necessary."
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"To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship."
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"True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie."
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"In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me; he does me most good when he does himself good."
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"On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts."
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"A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does."
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"If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession."
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"A true friend is the greatest possesion."
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"True friendshipship is like phosphorescence-it glows best when the world around you goes dark."
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"Instead of looking for a true friend become a true friend."
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"How rare were the tears of a dragon. We once lived in paradise and because of the corruption of an angel disgused as a dragon, all the world was cast into darkness. Now, as humans, we shed many tears-for what was lost, for what might of been, and for the end of friendships. Goodbye my true friends."
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"When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true friendship which never deceived hope, nor deserted sorrow."
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"True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together."
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"It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere"
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"The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments."
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"A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops."
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"The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have called into being. There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done."
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"But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship."
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