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“He who hath many friends hath none.”

“Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”

“Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are likely to meet. Because good manners build sturdy walls, our distaste for intimacy makes us exceedingly cordial "ships that pass in the night." As long as you remain a stranger we will be your friend forever.”

“When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”

“My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.”

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”

“There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”

“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.”

“The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”

“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”

“Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.”

“Are we not like two volumes of one book?”