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"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature."
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"A friend is someone who will always be there for you, in good and hard times."

"Don't appreciate me, I'm not up to it. Don't criticize me, I don't deserve it. Just be my friend and forgive me, because I am craving for it."

"Friendship is a gift forever;Cherish everyday, forget it never"

"Friendships - and indeed most relationships - are measured in the closeness of hearts, minds and soul ties... not in the distance of physical miles or even the passing of time."

"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend."

"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."

"A good friend loves you when the condition is better, a best friend holds your hand when you're in gutter."

"What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy."

"A good friend is someone who can love you like a dog and talk to you like a human."

"The depth of friendship depends on the depth of our love."
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"He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and progress, and its present state of development, not to the impulses of youth, but to the stern and tempered energies of manhood and the sombre sagacity of age; accomplishing so much, precisely because it imagined and hoped so little."

"That Jim Crow there in the window," answered the urchin, holding out a cent, and pointing to the gingerbread figure that had attracted his notice, as he loitered along to school; "the one that has not a broken foot."

"The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds--the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the wind tolled like a distant church bell, and sometimes gave a broad roar around the traveler, as if all Nature were laughing him to scorn. But he was himself the chief horror of the scene, and shrank not from its other horrors."

"He had that sense, or inward prophecy,-- which a young man had better never have been born than not to have, and a mature man had better die at once than utterly to relinquish,-- that we are not doomed to creep on forever in the old bad way, but that, this very now, there are harbingers abroad of a golden era, to be accomplished in his own lifetime."

"An infinite, inscrutable blackness has annihilated sight! Where is our universe? All crumbled away from us; and we, adrift in chaos, may hearken to the gusts of homeless wind, that go sighing and murmuring about in quest of what was once a world!"
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