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" Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation. "

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" Anyone born in the year 1950 who grew to fancy themselves as a soulful 18-year-old bought 'Songs of Leonard Cohen' upon its original release in 1968. For many of them, it was the beginning of a lifelong friendship. "

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" I have a couple of best friends, and I don't think I would live with them. It definitely... certain people can't live together, and I think that it could potentially put a lot of strain on the relationship or friendship. "

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" Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. "

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" Nyasaland was the perfect country for a volunteer. It was friendly and destitute; it was small and out-of-the-way. It had all of Africa's problems - poverty, ignorance, disease. "

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