Happy is the house that shelters a friend. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.― Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses — Ann Landers

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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. ― C.S. Lewis

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Surround yourself with love, not friends.

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Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

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