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"Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity."
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"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."

"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."

"He is the best friend who can see and reveal to you what is the best in you."

"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."

"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."

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

"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace."
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"In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names."

"There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter."

"The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God."

"If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love."

"One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian."

"Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship."

"Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange."
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