"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.“
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"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."
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"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."
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"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."
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"Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."
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"Men do not quit playing because they grow old they grow old because they quit playing."
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"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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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."
-Henri Nouwen
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"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
-Marlene Dietrich
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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."
-C. S. Lewis
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"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
-Henry David Thoreau
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