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Do you know what friendship is: it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
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At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person, all my old friends are gone and my heart fails when I think by how few ties I hold to the world.
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There are such beings in the world, perhaps one in a thousand, as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.
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I don't know where I'd be without you here with me. Life with you makes perfect sense. You're my best friend.
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A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason.
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You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Affection requires a firmer foundation than sympathy, and few people have a principle of action sufficiently stable to produce rectitude of feeling; for in spite of all the arguments I have heard to justify deviations from duty, I am persuaded that even the most spontaneous sensations are more under the direction of principle than weak people are willing to allow.
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My friend is one: who take me for what I am.
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Learned and leisurely hospitality is the only antidote to the stance of deadly cleverness that is acquired in the professional pursuit of objectively secured knowledge. I remain certain that the quest for truth cannot thrive outside the nourishment of mutual trust flowering into a commitment to friendship. Therefore, I have tried to identify the climate that fosters and the "conditioned" air that hinders the growth of friendship.
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