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The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

— Charles Dickens

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

— Helen Keller

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

— Khalil Gibran

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My friends are my estate.

— Emily Dickinson

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

— Henry David Thoreau

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation.

— Jane Austen

We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.

— Lewis Carroll

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

— Walt Whitman

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

— Mark Twain

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

— Epicurus

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

— Socrates

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

— Confucius

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

— Cicero

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

— C. S. Lewis

Because her promise binds me to remember, I must not forget her laughter.

— Anne Frank

Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

— Khalil Gibran

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

— Epicurus

Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

— Albert Camus

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

— Helen Keller

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

— C. S. Lewis

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

— Charles Dickens

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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