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...that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.
--_Hugo_.
The fewer our friends become, the more let us love one another.
--_Benjamin Franklin_.
The surest bulwark against evil is that of friendship.
--_Yonge_.
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The years have taught some sweet, some bitter lessons-- none wiser than this: To spend in all things else, but of one's friends to be most miserly.
--_James Russell Lowell_.
The best mirror is an old friend.
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--_Tennyson_.
True friendships are eternal.
--_Cicero_.
That two men may be real friends, they must have opposite opinions, similar principles, and different loves and hatreds.
--_Chateaubriand_.
There are very few friends with whom one can be intimate on all subjects. Discover the range of your intimacy with each friend and never go beyond it.
--_J. A. Spender_.
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Two persons will not be friends long if they cannot forgive... Proverb
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The best mirror is an old friend.