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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. "

Jennifer Chiaverini

Opportunities

She

Always

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" When you sit down to eat at a table, you are ready to take in nourishment - we all need to eat to live. Even in primal tribes, people ate together. It's the opening for friendship. "

" Sweat makes good friendship cement. "

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

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" One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that's not always the case. "

" Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. "

" The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages. "

" The friendship that can cease has never been real. "

" The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. "

" Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early '30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division. "

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Political

Men

" But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. "

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Sweets

Rose

Friendship

" My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism. "

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

" There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. "

" 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. "

" There are no shortcuts to genuine friendship. Relationships are built over time. "

" Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family. "

" A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. "

Saint Francis de Sales

Made

New

Tie

" I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many women I knew disparaged their work. Many working mothers thought they ought to be home with their children instead, so they carried around too much guilt to enjoy much job satisfaction. "

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

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Difference

Genius

Love

" The orchid's association in Chinese culture with such virtues as elegance, good taste, friendship, and fertility goes all the way back to Confucius himself, who was said to have a particular attachment to the flowers. "

" Friendship is a sheltering tree. "

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Friendship

Tree

Sheltering

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

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" We should have a good working friendship with the United States. "

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

" Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. "

" Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace. "

" Friendship and sentiment and the giving of one's words are very important. "

" Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. "