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Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste
Love and friendship exclude each other
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom
Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship
The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures
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