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Friendship Quotes
"Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."
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"Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes."
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"When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there, to impute feeling and everything. We're talking about something that's so surreal, it's just not possible within the world as we know it. So that requires a form that is not so literal."
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"How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."
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"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms."
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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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"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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"There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with."
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"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
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"Don't hate people who show you what's wrong with you. They are your mirror, they are your true friends."
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"A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice."
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"The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend."
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"Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus."
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"Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk."
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"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends."
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"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."
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"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends."
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"And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend."
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"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police."
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"Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?"
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"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."
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"But it does not seem that I can trust anyone,' said Frodo.Sam looked at him unhappily. 'It all depends on what you want,' put in Merry. 'You can trust us to stick with you through thick and thin--to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours--closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo."
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"It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family."
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"Let us learn how to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead' he suggested, 'After that my own rule is to let everything alone'."
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"Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men."
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"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."
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"Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself."
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"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly everybody will side with you when you are in the right."
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"In a dog's world,would we be his best friend?"
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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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"I call him my friend, but in the last year it's seemed too casual a word for what Gale is to me. A pang of longing shoots through my chest. If only he was with me now! But of course, I don't want that. I don't want him in the arena where he'd be dead in a few days. I just... I just miss him. And I hate being so alone. Does he miss me? He must."
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"You be careful, Wizard. Interestingly eccentric friends aren't easy to find."
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"Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold."
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"Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public."
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"I sigh. "But if you'd talked to Jules-if she could hear you . . . My voice trails off."Then you wouldn't feel quite so crazy? Oliver asks gently. "Can't you believe in me, if I believe in you?"
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"Most of my kin are bastards," [Tyrion] said with a wry smile, "but you're the first I've had to friend."
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"Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this one off."
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"Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world."
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"They thought more before nine a.m. than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand cocked his head and said, 'Ahh! Iconoclast. Disdains the easy, symbolic patriotism.' And when I tried to laugh it off and said, well, I didn't like cherry cobbler either, Marybeth touched Rand's arm: 'Because of the divorce. All those comfort foods, the desserts a family eats together, those are just bad memories for Nick.' It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like cherries."
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"As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend."
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"When you find the sort of people who will show up to give you a ride exactly when they've promised to do so, hold on to them for dear life."
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"A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have."
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"Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it."
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"Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds."
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"For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first."
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"Anna would like you, he thinks, looking into her face. Anna would like you."
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"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."
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"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."
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"Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles."
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