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" Love demands infinitely less than friendship. "

George Jean Nathan

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" Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a slave, while Elizabeth offered Mary the loyal, steadfast friendship she craved but had always found so elusive. "

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" Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. "

" As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish. "

" There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. "

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" Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love. "

" Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. "

" Yeah, I miss it. You don't just break off a friendship you've had with a sport, and with all those you've met all over the country. We've got some friends, some very close friends, and you just sit back and think how fortunate you were having a career like that. And, actually, there's nothing in the game of baseball that hasn't happened to me. "

" My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it. "

" We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world - but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first. "

" You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. "

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" Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. "

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" My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness. "

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" From the Twitter responses we got with 'Best Friends Forever' and the small feedback we are getting as the show is meted out, I think people are seeing themselves in the show and enjoying seeing female friendship portrayed in the way it really is. "

" I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. "

Henry David Thoreau

" My writing partner, Nicki, and I became obsessed with a monologist who performs unscripted shows equipped with nothing more than scribbled bullet points and a glass of water. We wrote him a fan letter and found ourselves sharing lunch and eventually a friendship. "

Emma McLaughlin

" November 11, 1802, I arrived at Judge Patterson's at Lisle. This respectable family treated me with every mark of distinction and friendship, and likewise all the people did the same. I really want for words to express my gratitude. "

Deborah Sampson

" My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way. "

" You turn 'Insecure' on, and you see a sea of brown. You see at the core of it a strong friendship between two brown-skinned girls. "

" Opposition is true friendship. "

True Friendship

" I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered. "

" A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. "

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" And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty. "

Margaret Cavendish

" Our species uses music and dance to express various feelings: love, joy, comfort, ceremony, knowledge, and friendship. And each one is distinct and widely recognized within cultures. Love songs cause us to move slowly and fluidly, for example, while songs of joy inspire us to dance in a full-body aerobic way. "

" If you have one true friend you have more than your share. "

" The key to doing 'Harold and Kumar' movies is you make it earnest. Primarily what we do is make Harold and Kumar's relationship and friendship believable, and we don't actually work on being that funny. "

" When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly. "

" I don't think it's more important to preserve female friendship than a marriage. But I think that there's a place for female friendship that's really important in the lives of all the women I know. As I've gotten older, it's become much more important to me. "

" Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. "

" If I'm right, the only reason our species is still around is because of our friendship with the canines. "