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There are one or two people - I’m not talking about family, about Zhenya or your mother - whom a par...

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We take care of our health we lay up money we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient but...

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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real,...

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Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the su...

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Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

Leave this touching and clawing. Let him be to me a spirit. A message, a thought, a sincerity, a gla...

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The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

Go oft to the house of thy friend for weeds choke the unused path.

In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you...

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No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it he must serve it too.

The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it.

Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will...

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As many thoughts in succession substantiate themselves, we shall by and by stand in a new world of o...

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, —"He who has a thousand friends has not a...

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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The ...

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To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companion...

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When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can ...

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last ...

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Life goes headlong. We chase some flying scheme, or we are hunted by some fear or command behind us....

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Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know too well how slowly we edge along sideways to every thing good & brilliant in our lives & how...

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Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Selected Letters Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing...

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A man with few friends is only half-developed there are whole sides of his nature which are locked ...

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Really to believe in human nature while striving to know the thousand forces that warp it from its i...

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I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be...

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If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd n...

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That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other.

Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?""Becaus...

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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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It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see ...

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes

Their hands slapped library door handles together, their chests broke track tapes together, their te...

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds even if it is the salt of the earth.

There is a definite process by which one made people into friends and it involved talking to them a...

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Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure ...

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Friendship that flames goes out in a flash.

don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?

Friendship is not a remedy for loneliness. Loneliness is part of our experience, and if we are looki...

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Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you alr...

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you...

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Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again...

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Richard BachIllusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

30 cents, two transfers, loveThinking hard about you I got on the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and...

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What's friendship's realest measure?I'll tell you. The amount of precious time you'll squander on so...

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So often the truth is told with hate and lies are told with love.

But it was hard to keep his hands still. He could almost feel them twitching emphatically with his s...

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Richard MathesonI Am Legend and Other Stories

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, an...

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Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallo...

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The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm w...

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I could give all to Time except -- exceptWhat I myself have held. But why declareThe things forbidde...

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Robert FrostThe Poetry of Robert Frost

And then to my surprise in one of them I discovered the original manuscript of On Friendship. Puzzle...

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank You for this place in which we dwell, for the love ...

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Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?"Deed, ...

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Robert Louis StevensonKidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indis...

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No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuade...

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The Friend of Your Youth is the only friend you will ever have, for he does not really see you. He s...

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Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

Nobody steals books but your friends.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a ...

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One man in a thousand, Solomon says.Will stick more close than a brother.And it's worth while seekin...

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There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will tu...

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I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation.

To like and dislike the same things this is what makes a solid friendship.

I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I ...

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Alone, [Chamcha] all at once remembered that he and Pamela had once disagreed, as they disagreed on ...

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Friendship that flames goes out in a flash.

As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by ...

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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human ...

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ESTRAGON: Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!VLADIMIR: Did I ever le...

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The more people I meet the happier I become.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does...

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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does...

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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does...

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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does...

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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does...

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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does...

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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does...

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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does...

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life he will soon find himself left...

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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love like being...

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It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity of a wife.

No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase in some respect his fondness of hims...

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Friendship is a union of spirits a marriage of hearts and the bond there of virtue.

Friendship peculiar boon of Heaven The noble mind's delight and pride To men and angels only give...

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That friendship may be at once fond and lasting there must not only be equal virtue on each part b...

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Men only become friends by community of pleasures.

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for t...

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Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals or where the superiority on one side is reduced by ...

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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef.

A man Sir should keep his friendship in constant repair.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your fr...

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Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the...

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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each...

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