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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testi...

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To anyone who will take the trouble to become attached to her she will immediately give a devoted, g...

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The clown’s eyes sidled towards her, then drew away quickly. “But they kept me away from you earlier...

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Isaac AsimovFoundation and Empire

Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that ...

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Isaac AsimovIn Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay a...

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If I had to choose a companion to be at the return of eternal darkness with, I'd choose you.'No offe...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Cursed Child

All I ever wanted to do was go to Hogwarts and have a mate to get up to mayhem with. Just like Harry...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two

Hermione was screaming again: the sound went through Harry like physical pain.

He must have known I'd want to leave you.""No, he must have known you would always want to come back...

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You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry."No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have r...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he ...

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His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux but in spite of everything, in spite of the da...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

We'll be there, Harry," said Ron"What?""At your Aunt and Uncle's house," said Ron, "And then we'll g...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

I was terrified they would desert me the moment they found out what I was. But of course, they, like...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry - you're a great wizard, you know." "I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Go on, have a pasty," said Harry, who had never had anything to share before or, indeed, anyone to s...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

I have one last hope for you, which is something that I already had at 21. The friends with whom I s...

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J. K. RowlingVery Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been test...

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J. K. RowlingVery Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

But it does not seem that I can trust anyone,' said Frodo.Sam looked at him unhappily. 'It all depen...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring

You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin – to the bitter end. And you can trust us to...

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At that moment there was a knock on the door, and Sam came in. He ran to Frodo and took his left han...

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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.

I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Return of the King

I'll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind," said Sam. "And I'll carry Mr. Frodo up m...

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You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to re...

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Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course, but I mean: pu...

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Give up your heart and you lose your wayTrusting another to feel that way.Give up your heart and you...

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Jackson BrowneAnthology: Easy Guitar

I felt tears pricking inside my eyelids. Maybe I came first with Oliver

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Jacqueline WilsonThe Illustrated Mum

I felt tears pricking inside my eyelids. Maybe I came first With Oliver.

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Jacqueline WilsonThe Illustrated Mum

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

When I looked at them sitting around me, the church in the distance, beyond that our school, with th...

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop th...

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The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

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James FreyA Million Little Pieces

—Alone, quite alone. You have no fear of that. And you know what that word means? Not only to be sep...

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James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Never back a woman you defend, never get quit of a friend on whom you depend, never make face to a f...

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He was the friend of my life. You know, you only have one friend like that; there can't be two.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you...

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A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But ha...

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Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?

...for to be sunk, though but for an hour in your esteem is a humiliation to which I know not how to...

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Mr. ***** is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends -- whether he may be e...

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Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Our time was most delightfully spent, in mutual Protestations of Freindship, and in vows of unaltera...

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She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too c...

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You feel, I suppose, that, in losing Isabella, you lose half yourself: you feel a void in your heart...

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Jane AustenNorthanger Abbey

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving peop...

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It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little t...

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My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great...

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Elizabeth could never address her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over, and, th...

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Jane AustenPride and Prejudice

You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember t...

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Jane AustenSense and Sensibility

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

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Jaron LanierYou Are Not a Gadget

People don’t change just because you know more about them.

It's like, you can't trust anybody, and if somebody you know doesn't fuck you over it's just because...

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Jay McInerneyStory of My Life

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

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Jay McInerneyThe Last of the Savages

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Deep in our hearts there is a call to live in communion with others, a call to love, to create, to r...

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But how to be present to another? Our hearts are so hard. We are so insensitive to the suffering of ...

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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, no...

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Love and friendship exclude each other.

What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires and spares...

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Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dus...

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Be with someone you don't want to be without.

Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together....

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I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship ...

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Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from ho...

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Your friend mourns your losses with you, because they experience them too. The truth is, no matter h...

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Friendship is the allay of our sorrows the ease of our passions the discharge of our oppression t...

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Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have ...

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I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that w...

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Maybe you know the monsters, Martin," Murphy said quietly. "But I know the guy who stops them. And i...

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Lea stood upon a fallen log ahead of us, staring ahead. Mouse walked up to her.Gggrrrr rawf arrrgggr...

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Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, "You're a good...

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Da. This is going very well already."Thomas barked out a laugh. "There are seven of us against the R...

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I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who...

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A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning....

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Karrin."She looked up at me. She looked very young somehow."Remember what I said yesterday," I said....

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There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, ...

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Loneliness is a hard thing to handle. I feel it, sometimes. When I do, I want it to end. Sometimes, ...

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There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.

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Jim HensonFavorite Songs from Jim Henson's Muppets

Moving right alongIn search of good timesAnd good news,With good friends you can't lose.This could b...

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Jim HensonIt's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. M...

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I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.

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Jodi PicoultHandle with Care

A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

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Jodi PicoultMy Sister's Keeper

It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you're alone. It ...

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Everyone lives in two worlds,” Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studie...

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Everyone lives in two worlds,” Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studie...

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My life seems to have become suddenly hollow and I do not know what is hanging over me. I cannot ev...

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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thin...

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But there are times," said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothin...

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Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.