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EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.

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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

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One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

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. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.

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Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

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We never touch but at points.

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I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

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Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

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Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

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My friends are my estate.

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When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed. But as an adult I had come to see that it was more the refraction of some total faithfulness and joy of which we all had some primordial notion. The exchange of trust and the experience of understanding between two people was like a sign or witness to the possibilitity of eternal caring and understanding and communication.

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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

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Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

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For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments, it should be the festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in the sexes is the first symbol, as all other things are symbols of love. Those relations to the best men, which, at one time, we reckoned the romances of youth, become, in the progress of character, the most solid enjoyment.

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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

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Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.

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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

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The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

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My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

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