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Who friendship with a knave hath made Is judged a partner in the trade.

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

Part of not being a self-centered asshole, Colin reasoned, is doing things with your friends even wh...

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Kafir, you have a very complicated problem with a very simple solution.

That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.

...being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.

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John Green (author)Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories...

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Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet...

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Such was life that morning: nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad o...

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You get all these friends when just when you don't need friends anymore.

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John Green (author)The Fault in Our Stars

When I was little, my dad used to tell me, "Will, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your n...

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you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.

Okay, let’s pretend to be friends. Just two friends having dinner.” “That doesn’t work in the South....

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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor...

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Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor...

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Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor...

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Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor...

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but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

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John IrvingA Prayer for Owen Meany

The way you remember or dream about your loved ones - the ones who are gone - you can't stop their e...

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You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and...

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When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk t...

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Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who hav...

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Being honest may not get you a lot of friends it’ll get you the right ones

I get by with a little help from my friends.

To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.

To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.

I am a believer in the evolutionary process, and yet I have sympathy for the friends of mine who are...

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I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that'swhy.

In a storm, I think, 'What if the gospel be not true? Then thou art, of all men, most foolish. For w...

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For my friends do not desert me, and life stays; for those two things I must be grateful.

I always wrote music for my friends, but my focus was on playing piano. I didn't think I'd be quite ...

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My family, the support of my friends, the amount of people that have written and come up to me on th...

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Those who think money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop … People would be happier an...

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Jonathan HaidtThe Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

With my schedule being so crazy, I can't call every day or hang out with my friends like I used to a...

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As far as friendships go, things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I have a few ...

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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preach...

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Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity ...

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As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his ...

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You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.

When my friends lack an eye I look at them in profile.

Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or...

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Friends are the best to turn to when you're having a rough day.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and th...

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Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, maki...

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Friend," replied Michael Strogoff, "Heaven reward thee for all thou hast done for me!""Only fools ex...

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I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my garage. I've ...

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My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would upda...

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My earliest memories as a kid was I would always try to make my mom and my stepdad laugh at dinner. ...

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The best part about being with a group is that you don't have to do everything alone. You're with yo...

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'Friends With Benefits': it feels like a two-hander to me, but it is a big movie, and this is the fi...

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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, pe...

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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was gro...

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I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I ...

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And Rob knew then that he had picked the right person to tell.

There are lots of women I look up to, but mentors are someone you talk to and not just admire. A lot...

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I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected ...

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We came to Portland because there was a good alternative public school. Friends who lived there told...

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I'd hesitated to have a wedding because my gay and lesbian friends don't have that right.

I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends n...

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My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to he...

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They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely....

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Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves be...

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More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face ...

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It's not that easy to find someone I can relate to. I'm tough to crack because I'm shy.

As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.

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L. Frank BaumThe Marvelous Land of Oz

To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer; y...

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You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a...

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We would never go shopping together or eat an entire cake while we complained about men. He'd never ...

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Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's ...

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I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing, you're ...

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a g...

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With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.

I don't have many famous friends, really, except Simon Cowell.

I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade educ...

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I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the gi...

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Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public.

You don't know me, dude," he says, not smiling this time. Gonzo examines his cards, prepping for his...

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Protect me from my friendsI can take care of my enemies

I admire people's marriages, and I think it's a wonderful thing to have, but I don't think it's the ...

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I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make...

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I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a ki...

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Don't tell your friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up others must have ...

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I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking.

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there mus...

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

I had a lot of friends in high school who said, 'Louie, I don't care what the government does as lon...

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He understood it when other kids were mean to him. It didn't bother him. He simply hated them. As lo...

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Louis SacharThere's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

My grandfather was a persuasive man who made friends with people at every level of influence. In ord...

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Violence was a disease Gansey didn't think he could catch. But all around him, his friends were slow...

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When Ronan thought of Gansey, he thought of moving into Monmouth Manufacturing, of nights spent in c...

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Even though Ronan was snarling and Noah was sighing and Adam was hesitating, he didn’t turn to verif...

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Now is the time to make sure we have the strings of all the balloons we want to keep before they all...

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