—Dumas.
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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.