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Honore de Balzac

"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."

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"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."

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"A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."

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"Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse."

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"At school my boobs were bigger than all my friends' and I was afraid to show them. Now, I feel they make my outfits look better. They're like an accessory."

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"Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States."

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"Unfailing friends are essential, when 'presence' and 'absence' are wrangling in our daily living, and our presence is rampaged by murk and woe, while passion and lust for life are trampled. Reliable allies can shore us up and since we are our best ally, we first have got to make sure we get along well with ourselves. ("Being my best friend)."

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"A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends."

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"Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up."

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"As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter and silliness and girls that was, somehow, friendship."

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"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."

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"Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never."

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