True friendship purifies and exalts. A friend may be a second conscience.
—J. Stalker.
The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.
—Hugo.
The fewer our friends become, the more let us love one another.
—Benjamin Franklin.
The surest bulwark against evil is that of friendship.
—Yonge.
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The years have taught some sweet, some bitter lessons—
none wiser than this:
To spend in all things else, but of one's friends to be most miserly.