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It is as easy to find a lover as to keep a friend, but as hard to find a friend as to keep a lover. ↗

— Emma Frances Dawson

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Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship. ↗

— Norman Maclean

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Bein friends is like being soldiers in the army. You live together, you fight together; you die together. ↗

— Ron Hall

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I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.' 'Treated like what?' She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else. ↗

— David Nicholls

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Forever and ever Bonnie, I will always be your friend. ↗

— Bryan Davis

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We have different interests, fit into different cliques, but the length of our friendship makes most of that unimportant. You go through enough with a person over a long enough period of time and they just become a part of who you are. ↗

— Lindsey Leavitt

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Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it. ↗

— Gary D. Schmidt

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Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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I have a feeling,’ he said, ‘I have a feeling that we were meant to be together. That we have fought the good fight, side by side, in the past or in the future, I do not know. I am a rational man, but I have learned the value of a good companion, and from the moment I clapped eyes on you, I knew I trusted you as well as I do myself. Yes, I want you with me. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

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