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 "Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks."
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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"We often choose a friend as we do a mistress -- for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love."
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William Hazlitt |
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"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind."
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William Hazlitt |
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"There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise."
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr |
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"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."
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Homer |
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"A decent boldness ever meets with friends."
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Homer |
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"At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry." |
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Victor Hugo |
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"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine."
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Thomas Jefferson |
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"To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship."
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Dr Samuel Johnson |
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"Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you."
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Dr Samuel Johnson |
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