If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.― Mark Twain

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It’s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not. — Mignon McLaughlin

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Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this. ― Dave Eggers

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I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles. — Nelson Mandela

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Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody. ― Stephen Chbosky

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The realest people don’t have a lot of friends. — Tupac Shakur

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Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women. ― Booker T. Washington

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Friends are the family we choose. — Jennifer Aniston

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Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.

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