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George Eliot

"It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old."

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"It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old."

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"Friends are the real superheroes. They battle our worst enemies-loneliness, grief, anxiety, depression, fear, and doubt-every time they come around."

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"A friend is a person who always understands your preoccupations, even when other people do not perceive them at all."

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"Two a.m.' He swallowed, then said, "You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they're asleep or it's cold or you need to be bailed out of jail...they'll come for you. It's like, the highest level of friendship."

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"When we see a lonely fisherman, we ask where the boat is; when we see a lonely boat, we ask where the fisherman is! We love to see the good friends always together!"

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"Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree."

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"Friendship is not about ships-no matter how big and fancy and expensive the yacht is."

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"Life's gonna kick you in the butt. That's what it does. But if you gotta put up with this crap, the least you can expect is that your friends will stand by you. I mean, for crying in the night, what else are friends for but to help you make right what isn't in life?"

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Amber Hurdle

"All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. ...Each human soul has in a sense to enact for itself the gigantic humility of the Incarnation. Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind."

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Amber Hurdle

"A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's tooth."

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

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