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Friendship Quotes
"My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private."
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"For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends."
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"Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best."
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"Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld."
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"Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations."
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"In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy."
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"Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker."
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"The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them."
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"Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions."
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"The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate."
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"The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends."
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"I like my friends to be the hitters. The pitchers, they all have the same brain as I do. The hitters see the game from a different perspective."
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"Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you."
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"Love demands infinitely less than friendship."
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"From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes."
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"Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable."
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"You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship."
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"I am a still friend with Dave Crosby, he's a weird duck but I like him a lot."
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"We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe."
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"I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important."
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"For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends."
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"The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone."
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"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company."
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"A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints."
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"You can't eat your friends and have them too."
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"Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used."
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"I've had the same friends for ten, fifteen years."
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"Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret."
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"Well, if you don't want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people know about immortality device. That way, your loved ones won't die."
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"It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends."
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"At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips."
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"I would carry some of it if I could, Bean said silently. Like I did today, you can turn it over to me and I'll do it, if I can. You don't have to do this alone.Only even as he thought this, Bean knew it wasn't true. If it could be done, Ender was the one who would have to do it. All those months when Bean refused to see Ender, hid from him, it was because he couldn't bear to face the fact that Ender was what Bean only wished to be - the kind of person on whom you could put all your hopes, who could carry all your fears, and he would not let you down, would not betray you.I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don't want to go through what you've been through to get there."
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"Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends."
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"Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth."
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"Be around people that make you want to be a better person, who make you feel good, make you laugh, and remind you what's important in life."
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"Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends."
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"Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one."
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"You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends."
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"It made me feel better. Mouse might not have been thesmartest creature on earth, but he was steady, kind, loyal, andwas possessed of the uncanny wisdom of beasts for knowingwhom to trust. I might not have been a superhero, but Mousethought that I was pretty darned cool. That meant something. Itwould have to be enough."
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"You don't know many friends you have till you buy a big-ass house on the beach."
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"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."
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"He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together."
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"My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history."
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"I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques."
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"A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player."
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"The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study."
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