"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
-Samuel Johnson
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"Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.“
-Samuel Johnson
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"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."
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"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
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"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
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"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
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