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No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less
Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste
Love and friendship exclude each other
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom
Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship
The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command
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