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It is equally impossible to forget our friends, and to make them answer
to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed we begin to keep them
company. How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual
friends that we may go out and meet their ideal cousins!

--_Thoreau_.

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I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were
mine--wild, delicate, throbbing property in his virtues. I feel as
warmly when he is praised as the lover when he hears applause of his
engaged maiden.

--_Emerson_.

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In very many cases of friendship, or what passes for it, the old axiom
is reversed, and like clings to unlike more than to like.

--_Dickens_.

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Hearts are linked to hearts by God. The friend on whose fidelity you
can count, whose success in life flushes your cheek with honest
satisfaction, whose triumphant career you have traced and read with a