No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

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If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. — Nelson Mandela

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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

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I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.

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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Without couples, there can be no communities. Without friendship, trust, and intimacy between two, the bonds connecting three, or four, or four thousand, are easily severed. ― Jacob L. Wright

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Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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