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

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To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.

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I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships. ― Kurt Cobain

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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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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. - Simone de Beauvoir

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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them. - Simone de Beauvoir

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

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Marriage: a friendship recognized by the police. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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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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