A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. ― Elbert Hubbard

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To find yourself, think for yourself.

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The only way to have a friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. — Joseph Addison

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To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.

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When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day. — Dalai Lama

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The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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