Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.

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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

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In a strong relationship, you should love your companion more than you need them. ― Steve Maraboli

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Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.― Mark Twain

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Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. ― Dalai Lama XIV

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Don't throw the ball before you have it.

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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

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Abused patience turns to fury.

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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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