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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it a slight physical antipathy mo...

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Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

One in three all friends are:Brothers in distress,equals facing rivals,free men - facing death!

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I c...

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Here and there on earth there is probably a kind of continuation of love; in which this greedy desir...

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To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treat...

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Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend i...

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In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make...

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The worst way to miss someone is to have them sitting right next to you and know you can never have ...

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It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Old friends we say are best when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror...

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Give me the avowed the erect and manly foe Bold I can meet perhaps may turn the blow But of all...

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Give me the avowed the erect and manly foe Bold I can meet perhaps may turn the blow But of all ...

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Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably aske...

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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement much disputation...

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

Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it wa...

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The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights fo...

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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarrelled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the g...

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On the contrary, having the amiable vanity which knits us to those who are fond of us, and disinclin...

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Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may ...

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The best mirror is an old friend.

We’re a couple of shooting stars, Biggs, and we’ll never be stopped.

she had no stay, no root in herself yet. Well do I know not one human being ought, even were it poss...

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Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, ...

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Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as th...

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My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter f...

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When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.

To cement a new friendship especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world a ...

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It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on without enquiry and almost at first sight...

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One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another people are frien...

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Be courteous to all but intimate with few and let those few be well-tried before you give them you...

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity bef...

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Actions not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be...

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My conduct with my friends is motivated: each being is, I believe, incapable on his own, of going to...

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Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes ti...

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Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that...

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The lion is ashamed it's true when he hunts with the fox.

The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppr...

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I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.

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Graham GreeneThe Heart of the Matter

In the family, in interpersonal relationships, even in friendship, faith is tremendously important. ...

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And in friendship and still more here, in this central business of love, accident rules it seems to ...

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You have been my friend in the cosmos; you have been my only friend on this planet - the only soul t...

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People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.~Victor Rad...

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Quizás aun no te comprenda. Pero, con un poco de tiempo, llegaré a entenderte. Y no habrá nadie en e...

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For a ten-year-old boy and a ten-year-old girl to become good friends was not easy under any circums...

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In that sense, this is not a standard book of interviews. Nor is it what you might call a book of 'c...

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Haruki MurakamiAbsolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa

I have met many different people in the course of my life, some of whom I have come to know pretty w...

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Haruki MurakamiAbsolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa

It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not re...

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All you have to do is wait. Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by f...

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Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just le...

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And I really wanted to see you, too," she said. "When I couldn’t see you any more, I realized that. ...

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Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of anoth...

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I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feat...

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now I'm told that this is life, that pain is just a simple comprimise so we can get what we want out...

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If I'm a bad person, you don't like meWell I guess I'll make my own wayIt's a circleA mean cycleI ca...

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I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attr...

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So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures ...

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My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into b...

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I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into b...

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Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life a community of thought a rivalry of aim.

Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

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Henry AdamsThe Education of Henry Adams

A new friend is always a miracle...One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly ...

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Henry AdamsThe Education of Henry Adams

A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in t...

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Henry AdamsThe Education of Henry Adams

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to ...

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A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is t...

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There is not so good an understanding between any two but the exposure by the one of a serious faul...

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their i...

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Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

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Henry David ThoreauA Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.

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Henry David ThoreauA Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

For if the truth were known, Love cannot speak, But only thinks and does; Though surely out 'twill l...

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Henry David ThoreauCollected Essays and Poems

There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any relig...

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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I sho...

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Henry FieldingThe History of Tom Jones

It’s very true; there are many more iron pots certainly than porcelain. But you may depend on it tha...

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I never really have believed in the existence of friendship in big societies - in great towns and gr...

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They had from an early hour made up their mind that society was, luckily, unintelligent, and the mar...

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The word in your mouth is anarchy.

Born in the East, and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the Bible walks the ways of all the worl...

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A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Born in the East, and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the Bible walks the ways of all the worl...

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A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

Ah how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.