Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. — Simone De Beauvoir

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

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

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Operation Peace for Galilee is not a military operation resulting from the lack of an alternative. -Menachem Begin

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A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

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I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . . — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We must be our own before we can be another's. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

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