~ Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
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~ He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all.
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~ True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
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~ It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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~ If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
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~ Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
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~ If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
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~ Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.
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~ Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
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~ Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire? ~
~ I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing ~
~ Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.
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