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I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They...

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

Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make fr...

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Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That...

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Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink ...

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Good values are like a magnet, they attract good people.

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John WoodenWooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion

Ah, two firm friends, reunited at last! There should be sweet violin music playing for us, but I'll ...

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Jonathan StroudThe Creeping Shadow

There's the imperative to keep secrets, and the imperative to have them known. How do you know that ...

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111 company is like a dog who dirts those most whom he loves best.

My father and he had cemented (the verb is excessive) one of those English friendships which begin b...

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from t...

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True happiness ... arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next fro...

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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.

The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

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Joseph Gordon-LevittThe Tiny Book of Tiny Stories

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

Never exact of a friend in adversity what you would require in prosperity.

Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

...we so resented that asshole up there talking talking talking taking up the entire assembly expect...

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(...) I could "talk fast" -- that's to say, without hesitating, stammering -- most of the time -- bu...

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If you call a gypsy a vagabond, I think you do him wrong,For he never goes a-travelling but he takes...

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

We are friends for life. When we’re together the years fall away. Isn’t that what matters? To have s...

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Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important th...

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Julia ChildMy Life in France

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

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But I'm not ready to let Winn-Dixie go.

I always felt that the great high privilege relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to ex...

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I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask yo...

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I am treating you as my friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to ...

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Friendship is an art and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.

And what made these heart-to-hearts possible--you might even say what made the whole friendship poss...

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As I’ve said, it wasn’t until a long time afterwards—long after I’d left the Cottages—that I realize...

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That’s what I always wanted to know. Why would some fella be willing to do something generous for a ...

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Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; ...

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Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling bu...

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I'll put it on my table where I keep my drawings," Hassan said.His saying that made me kind of sad. ...

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I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them ...

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of li...

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And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I...

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I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake o...

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You have some queer friends, Dorothy,' she said.The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're fri...

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The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend w...

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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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I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting th...

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Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.

The two girls used to meet several times a day, and every time they met, Kitty's eyes said: "Who are...

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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.

Dear friend, I have searched all nightthrough each burnt paper,but I fear I will never findthe formu...

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And I'll dance with you in Vienna,I'll be wearing a river's disguise.The hyacinth wild on my shoulde...

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Leonard CohenStranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him in public.

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me not expecting perfection all in o...

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Her eyes take on that suspicious, wounded look girls get when they know they've fallen off the top r...

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Libba BrayA Great and Terrible Beauty

Out of the corner of my eye, I can see Felicity and Ann hunched over their ornaments as if they were...

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you...

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But [Patrick's] character is partly based on a boy named Mark who lived across the street from me wh...

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consistent affection for his characters is what sets Tolstoy apart. Flaubert is equally “objective,”...

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

If you want truth, you should begin by giving it.

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

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I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different wo...

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It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing,...

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It's hard to give up the being together with someone.

It was because someone who was a real friend was having the exact same feelings I was having, about ...

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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Friendship is love without his wings!

You're the only friend I need Sharing beds like little kids And laughing 'til our ribs get tough But...

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LordeLorde - Pure Heroine Songbook

The bark on the tree was just a little softer.

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

No friendship is an accident.

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O. HenryHeart of the West

Mr Jenkins. Unique, as every star in the sky is unique, every leaf on every tree, every snowflake, e...

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Who makes you least confused?""Calvin" There was no hesitation here. "When I'm with Calvin, I don't ...

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The hard fact of friendship is that you need to make time for new friends by first stripping out the...

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I pressed my hand against her hair, holding her to me, filled with the certainty that she was going ...

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Maggie StiefvaterBallad: A Gathering of Faerie

Images barraged him. Connections darted electric. Veins. Roots. Forked lightning. Tributaries. Branc...

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Was it okay? Adam had turned down so many offers of help from Gansey. Money for school, money for fo...

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Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn't all-encompassing, tha...

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Derisively, Ronan said, 'No. The ancient Greeks didn't have a word for Blue.'Everyone at the table l...

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Pain was a torn piece of paper.

To think you could have been dreaming the cure for cancer," Blue said. "Look, Sargent," Ronan retort...

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as yo...

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The art of conversation lies in listening

... the good intentions of a third party are powerless to control a woman who is annoyed to find her...

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...we need to bear in mind that our opinion of other people, our ties with friends or family, have o...

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There is nothing more shameful than perfidious friendship.

Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it’s a...

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She can outstare anyone, and I am almost as good. We’re impervious, we scintillate, we are thirteen....

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This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two ...

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So by the time the morning came, Odysseus and I were indeed friends, as Odysseus had promised we wou...

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I don't smile. Why tempt her to friendship?

If you want to be listened to you should put in time listening.

In real friendship the judgment the genius the prudence of each party become the common property o...

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Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or prof...

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A spiritual relationship is not necessarily one in which two people are smiling all the time.  Spiri...

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Marianne WilliamsonA Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

In meeting again after a separation acquaintances ask after our outward life friends after our inn...

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Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them send their children wandering drown them in floo...

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When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest...

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