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Friendship Quotes
"With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end."
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"Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything."
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"Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars."
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"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."
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"Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives."
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"It's best to have a small boat of friends where everyone rows than an ark of friends where no one does. At least you're getting somewhere."
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"She's always there for me when I need her; She's my best friend; she's just my everything."
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"If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'"
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"At least I make decisions based on what I think is right, not who my friends might be."
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"Your imaginary friend isn't the problem, Amanda. The problem is that you don't seem to have any real friends."
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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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"I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty."
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"I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends."
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"If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst."
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"If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers."
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"Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is the most haunting of her life, though it is one-sided and ends in tragedy."
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"Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice."
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"I am very aware that there are many of you who have friends and loved ones in the areas affected by this storm who have been displaced or who have not yet been accounted for."
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"People tell me they laughed hard enough to wake their spouses, that they've given away numerous copies to friends, and that it's the one Trek book they'll give to people they wouldn't expect to like others."
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"I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends."
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"I was stuck at home in bed with me and got more and more involved with the Internet. I used it to keep in contact with friends and to make sure I was up to date with everything that was going on in the world."
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"The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia."
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"If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it."
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"On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people."
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"Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend."
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"Friends are relatives you make for yourself."
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"People who are friends with me and who know me, know a side of me that is totally not cold."
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"A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice."
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"I have lost friends some by death ... others by sheer inability to cross the street."
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"Lebedev: A time has come of sorrow and sadness for you. Man, my dear friend, is like a samovar. It doesn't always stand on a shelf in the chill but sometimes they put hot coals in it and it goes psh... psh! This comparison is worthless but you won't think up a cleverer one."
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"This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job."
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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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"O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics."
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"If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius."
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"In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends."
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"The last fight for the white metal is to be made here in this country and in this House, my friends."
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"When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what's it matter what they did to you?"
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"Between friends there is no need of justice."
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"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out."
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"Significantly, romantic friendships can coexist with the fact of partners' marrying because their reason for being is not to replace marriage but to open the possibility of sustained, committed true love existing among friends, and not just same-sex friends. No matter that our chosen relationship commitments change. Those of us who have long-term romantic friendships, some that have lasted longer than any of our marriages or partnerships, do not fear that these commitments will falter if we create primary bonds."
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"You have to be great friends and make each other laugh. We laugh a lot and neither is jealous of the other."
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"No one is more beautiful to me than a person who's easy to talk to."
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"Part of the journey in life is slipping and falling along the way, in these times true friends are the ones who pick you up and dust you off."
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"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend."
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"That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends."
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"Time should make enemies and Life should make friends."
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"A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away."
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"The U.S. views Morocco as an important friend, and we applaud your political and economic reforms that culminated with the recent parliamentary elections that were widely reported to have been conducted in a fair and open manner."
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