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  ...be friendship among the good.
--_Plato_.
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False friendship turns to evil desires, upbraidings, slander, deceit, sorrow, confusion and jealousies; but pure friendship is always the same, modest, courteous and loving, knowing no change save an increasingly pure and perfect union.
--_De Sales_.
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Friendship is love with understanding. --_Proverb_.
* * * * * Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.  
--_Dumas_.
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Friendship is said to be a plant of tedious growth, its roots composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.
--_Vanbrough_.
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Friendship springs from nature rather than from need.
--_Cicero_.
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Friendship, a dear balm-- Whose coming is as light and music are 'Mid dissonance and gloom:--a star Which moves...   Younger, Dumas The

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