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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Any country whose people conduct themselves well can count upon our hearty friendship. If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States. Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde
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The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
Bertrand Russell
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We have an alliance that was forged more than a half century ago, and strengthened by shared interests and democratic values. Our people share ties of family, ties of culture, and ties of commerce. Our troops have served to protect Japan's shores, and our citizens have found opportunity and friendship in Japan's cities and towns.
Barack Obama
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So they spoke, and both springing down from behind their horses
gripped each other's hands and exchanged the promise of friendship;
but Zeus the son of Kronos stole away the wits of Glaukos
who exchanged with Diomedes the son of Tydeus armour
of gold for bronze, for nine oxen's worth the worth of a hundred.
Homer
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Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.
G. K. Chesterton
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Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.
Cicero
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You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to receive our aid when you came at last to these shores fainthearted loiterers and well-nigh emptyhanded. In huts on the beaches would you be dwelling still had not the Noldor carved out your haven and toiled upon your walls.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.
Cicero
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Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!....
Henry David Thoreau
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You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the slender arm which is passed through yours, you venture to take the little gloved hand, you say good night at absurd length in the shadow of the door. It is innocent and very interesting, love trying his wings in a first little flutter.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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What is it that renders friendship between women so lukewarm and of so short duration? It is the interests of love and the jealousy of conquest.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other
Michel de Montaigne
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Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
Charles Dickens
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What is the odds so long as the fire of soul is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather! What is the odds so long as the spirit is expanded by means of rosy wine, and the present moment is the least happiest of our existence!
Charles Dickens
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The trouble is that my heart is loath to be without love even for a single hour.... If you want to keep me forever, then show as much friendship as love, and more than anything else, love me and tell me the truth.
Catherine the Great
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All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.
Cicero
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The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.
Samuel Johnson
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A civil war occurring in a country, where foreigners reside and carry on trade under treaty stipulations is necessarily fruitful of complaints of the violation of neutral rights. All such collisions tend to excite misapprehensions, and possibly to produce mutual reclamations between nations which have a common interest in preserving peace and friendship.
Abraham Lincoln
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Beauty, wit,
High birth, vigor of bone, desert in service,
Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Samuel Johnson
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Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.
Confucius
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To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
Samuel Johnson
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