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.

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Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself. ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . . — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Work is the best friend I have ever known. It has brought me all the good things I have had. — John Soforic

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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 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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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

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