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

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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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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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

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Share love. Share time. Share friendship. Just share. Put some love into everything you do.

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

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Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

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

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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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Surround yourself with love, not friends.

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