If you would know how rare a thing a true friend is, let me tell you
that to be a true friend a man must be perfectly honest.

--_Henry W. Shaw_.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our
friends for their sakes rather than for our own.

--_Charlotte Bronte_.

In friendship even thought meets thought ere from the lips it part, and
each warm wish springs mutual from the heart.

--_Pope_.

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I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people,
But never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness;
Some more, and some less; but, truly, all can claim a little:
And a man may travel through the world, and sow it thick with
friendships.

--_Tupper_.

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Love is the greatest of human affections, and friendship the noblest and
most refined improvement of love.