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Since human affairs are frail and fleeting, some persons must ever be
sought for whom we may love, and by whom we may be loved; for when
affection and kind feeling are done away with, all cheerfulness likewise
is banished from existence.

--_Cicero_.

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Lying on lower levels is but a trivial offence compared with civility
and compliments on the level of friendship.

--_Thoreau_.

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My friend, with you to live alone,
Were how much better than to own
A crown, a sceptre and a throne!

--_Tennyson_.

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Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can
never taste.

--_La Bruyere_.