All quotes
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer. — Alexander Pope（Attribution unverified） |
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No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. — Robert Southey（Attribution unverified） |
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I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep, for my shadow in the pool can do better than that. — Confucius（Attribution unverified） |
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. — William Blake（Attribution unverified） |
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A friend is the hope of the heart. — Ralph Waldo Emerson（Attribution unverified） |
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No human relation gives one possession in another...every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship and in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone. — Kahlil Gibran（Attribution unverified） |
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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, wheather in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. — Oscar Wilde（Attribution unverified） |
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson（Attribution unverified） |
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You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends. — Hillary Clinton（Attribution unverified） |
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My friends are my estate. — Emily Dickinson（Attribution unverified） |
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Those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee. — Tacitus（Attribution unverified） |
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Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company. — George Washington（Attribution unverified） |
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Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. — Elbert Hubbard（Attribution unverified） |
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Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. — Elbert Hubbard（Attribution unverified） |
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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. — George Bernard Shaw（Attribution unverified） |
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. — Alexandre Dumas（Attribution unverified） |
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Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair. — C.S. Lewis（Attribution unverified） |
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And what?s romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it?s always daisy-time. — D.H. Lawrence（Attribution unverified） |
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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. — William Shakespeare（Attribution unverified） |
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My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out. — Abraham Lincoln（Attribution unverified） |