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Fate, which has ordained that there shall be no friendship among the
evil, has also ordained that there shall ever be friendship among the
good.

--_Plato_.

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False friendship turns to evil desires, upbraidings, slander, deceit,
sorrow, confusion and jealousies; but pure friendship is always the
same, modest, courteous and loving, knowing no change save an
increasingly pure and perfect union.

--_De Sales_.

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Friendship is love with understanding.
--_Proverb_.

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Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what
one receives.

--_Dumas_.

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