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The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.

—Spike Milligan

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Friends, I was pretty sure, lift their friends up; they don’t weigh them down like a sack full of stones.

—Dana Reinhardt in The Summer I Learned to Fly

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It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

—Marlene Dietrich

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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

—Baltasar Gracián

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Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

—Peter Ustinov

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

—Wilson Mizner

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Time heals. It's slow and it's painful but it works. Talking helps, going out with other people, seeing friends. She'll be like a book you read long ago. If you trust that if it's meant to be then it'll be again, and if it's not you will wake up one day and realize that you hadn't even thought of her once. And then you'll be free.

—Endless Love (2014)

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Enemies are the people who think about you more than your friends do.

—Donna Lynn Hope

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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

—Joseph Brodsky

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

—John Singer Sargent

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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

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People always think they know other people, but they don't. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won't eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don't know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel sad for no reason at all.

—Libba Bray in Going Bovine

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