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Friendship is a light like the light of phosphorous, seen plainest when all around is dark.

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals whereas love is an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

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Friendship is a refuge for the individual rather than a point of departure for involvement in any community. It had nothing to do with the state, the community or any common effort to change the conditions of society.

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Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

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Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.

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Friendship is a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality which is not based on experiments or tests of another person's qualities but on trust.

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