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" Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. "

Jean de La Fontaine

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" That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings; it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did. "

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" Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. "

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

" I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future. "

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" I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. "

Katherine Mansfield

" I only understand friendship or scorched earth. "

" 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 not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned 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. "

" I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. "

Thomas Jefferson

" As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something. "

" But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right. "

" One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. "

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" We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do. "

" When I was first pitched the show, I was like, 'Oh, God, a soapy show called 'Mistresses.'' But it wasn't that at all. It wasn't a bunch of women pulling guns on each other and stabbing each other in the back. We really have a core friendship. "

" Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. "

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" Ultimately, it's a sense of camaraderie and friendship with local people that is core to my journeys. "

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

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" Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! "

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" It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them. "

" The first time I got into astrology was being in New York. I was like, 'Oh, this is a real thing here!' Now, I'll Google what your sign is and what my sign is to see the predictions of friendship, and I find that really cool. But that's the most I know. "

" One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable. "

" Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. "

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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. "