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" Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. "

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" It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. "

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" Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. "

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" I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. "

" In a basic sense, 'A Little Life' is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It's a different version of adulthood, but it's no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else's. "

" To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up. "

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" Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey. "

" A friend is, as it were, a second self. "

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" Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. "

" When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin. "

" The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when. "

" Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it. "

" I think the truth about male friendship is often left out of the media, and it's that it has a million different shades, because masculinity has a million different forms. "

" As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. "

" It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. "

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" That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. "

" Don't let this music industry or any industry come between friendship. Just stay focused on your goals. "

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" Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. "

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" Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends. "

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" I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you. "

" Usually, you don't have commitment promises in a friendship. Usually, it just grows. "

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" Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. "

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" I despise shows that present friendship where you're always there for each other and really strong because I don't know anyone like that. I mean, I've got great friends, but I can go months without seeing them because I think, 'I just can't deal with having to give you anything.' "

" A lot of times, in our culture and our society, we put romantic love somehow on a higher plane than self-love and friendship love. You can't do that. You have to honor and really fully invest in all these different loving relationships. "

" When you think back in history about producers and artists or writers who've had good synergy, a lot of times they date, or they're married, or there's a friendship and a kinship. "

" Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations. "

" Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. "

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" The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights. "