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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

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Mr. ***** is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends -- whether he may be equally capable of retaining them, is less certain.

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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature