Friendship is said to be a plant of tedious growth, its roots composed
of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

--_Vanbrough_.

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Friendship springs from nature rather than from need.

--_Cicero_.

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Friendship, a dear balm--
Whose coming is as light and music are
'Mid dissonance and gloom:--a star
Which moves not 'mid the moving heavens alone;
A smile among dark frowns: a beloved light:
A solitude, a refuge, a delight.

--_P. B. Shelley_.

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Friendship is the greatest bond in the world.

--_Jeremy Taylor_.

Friendship is love without wings.