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" 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. "

Lawrence Osborne

Flowers

Good

Friendship

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" Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police. "

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Marriage

Friendship

Police

" A band is a good way to break up a friendship. "

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Band

Friendship

" Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. "

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Young

People

" I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessness, a kind of selflessness, a sense of your own worthlessness, I think, is pretty exhilarating. "

" 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. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Say

You

Courtesy

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