—Novalis.
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Few men are calculated for that close connection which we distinguish by the name of friendship, and we well know the difference between a friend and an acquaintance.
—Sterne.
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Friendship is the nearest thing we know to what religion is. God is love. And to make religion akin to friendship is simply to give it the highest expression conceivable by man.
—Drummond.
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Friendship is the great chain of human society.
—Howell.