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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

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It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.

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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

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A faithful friend is the medicine of life.

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

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He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all.

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

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I came to the place of my birth and cried, ''The friends of my youth, where are they?'' And echo answered, ''Where are they?''

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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

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Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

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For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

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A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still; and there are not many friends who know enough to do that.

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

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We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.

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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

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