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"Joyful friends, mostly loyal, they hadn't abandoned their protector before the gathering storm; and despite the threatening sky, despite the shuddering earth, they remained, smiling, considerate, and as devoted to misfortune as they had been to prosperity."
Alexandre Dumas
"Joyful friends, mostly loyal, they hadn't abandoned their protector before the gathering storm; and despite the threatening sky, despite the shuddering earth, they remained, smiling, considerate, and as devoted to misfortune as they had been to prosperity."
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"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones."
Charles de Montesquieu
"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones."
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"Friends can create our most cherished memories."
Fennel Hudson
"Friends can create our most cherished memories."
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"There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart."
Benjamin Disraeli
"There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart."
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"Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful."
Mason Cooley
"Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful."
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"In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend."
Anne Sophie Swetchine
"In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend."
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"A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself."
Frank Crane
"A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself."
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"A friend is, as it were, a second self."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"A friend is, as it were, a second self."
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"Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write."
Kazuo Ishiguro
"Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write."
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"I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without."
Helena Christensen
"I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without."
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"We didn't talk about the decision at all, which was great, just to get together as friends. The only thing he said to me was 'It's your decision. Just do what you have to do and I will back you 100 per cent."
Craig Stevens
"We didn't talk about the decision at all, which was great, just to get together as friends. The only thing he said to me was 'It's your decision. Just do what you have to do and I will back you 100 per cent."
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"Is there any pleasure on earth as great as the circle of Christian friends by a good fire?"
J. R. R. Tolkien
"Is there any pleasure on earth as great as the circle of Christian friends by a good fire?"
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"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends."
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"That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party."
J. R. R. Tolkien
"That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party."
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"You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends."
Joseph Conrad
"You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends."
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"It's like this: if you have one piece of cake, and you eat it, that's fine.If you have two pieces of cake, you should probably share some with a friend. But maybe not. Occasionally we could all use two pieces of cake.But if you have a whole cake, and you eat *all* of it, that's not very cool. It's not just selfish, it's kinda sick and unhealthy."
Patrick Rothfuss
"It's like this: if you have one piece of cake, and you eat it, that's fine.If you have two pieces of cake, you should probably share some with a friend. But maybe not. Occasionally we could all use two pieces of cake.But if you have a whole cake, and you eat *all* of it, that's not very cool. It's not just selfish, it's kinda sick and unhealthy."
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"Usually after a good puke you feel better right away. We hugged each other and then said good-bye and went off to opposite ends of the hall to lie down in our own rooms. There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends."
Sylvia Plath
"Usually after a good puke you feel better right away. We hugged each other and then said good-bye and went off to opposite ends of the hall to lie down in our own rooms. There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends."
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"Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me."
Andrew Jackson
"Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me."
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"The language of America changed with the election of Bill Clinton, because with all due respect to my friends on the Republican side, Bill Clinton is the best communicator of the last 50 years. He felt your pain."
Frank Luntz
"The language of America changed with the election of Bill Clinton, because with all due respect to my friends on the Republican side, Bill Clinton is the best communicator of the last 50 years. He felt your pain."
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"I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting."
Paul Cezanne
"I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting."
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"I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends."
Richard Pryor
"I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends."
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"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy."
Arthur Ashe
"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy."
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"The other day a friend called and told me they made a porn film using the title of my first movie. I guess you know you've made it when there's a porn parody of a movie you've done."
Kate Bosworth
"The other day a friend called and told me they made a porn film using the title of my first movie. I guess you know you've made it when there's a porn parody of a movie you've done."
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"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."
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"Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?"
Robert MacNeil
"Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?"
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"I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new."
Robert Service
"I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new."
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"The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers."
Larry Flynt
"The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers."
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"Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others."
Johann Kaspar Lavater
"Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others."
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"Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood."
Frank Shorter
"Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood."
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"We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world."
Tony Blair
"We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world."
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"The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith."
Stephen Sprouse
"The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith."
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"I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies."
John Dingell
"I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies."
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"I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy."
Charles Kuralt
"I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy."
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"It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets."
Elizabeth Bowen
"It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets."
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"The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool."
Natasha Henstridge
"The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool."
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"You can't be friends with a squirrel! A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit."
Sarah Jessica Parker
"You can't be friends with a squirrel! A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit."
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"I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head."
Kurt Cobain
"I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head."
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"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world."
Leo Buscaglia
"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world."
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"All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim."
Barry Cornwall
"All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim."
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"At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation."
Li Peng
"At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation."
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"He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back."
Thomas Fuller
"He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back."
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"Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists."
Dick Armey
"Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists."
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"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."
Arnold H. Glasow
"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."
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"The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for."
Henry Home
"The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for."
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"When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set."
Rahm Emanuel
"When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set."
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"Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends."
Tom Waits
"Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends."
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"In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy."
Brian Mulroney
"In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy."
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"Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore."
Wavy Gravy
"Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore."
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"We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are."
Henry A. Kissinger
"We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are."
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"You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends."
William Butler Yeats
"You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends."
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