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Lovers face to face, friends side by side.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. Unknown Friends are the siblings, God never gave us. -Mencius.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our ow.

Huns, wops, gooks, Japs.. words to dehumanize and demonize.

A road to a friend's house is never long. -Danish proverb.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair. -Samuel Johnson.

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

People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything so crushed you can't find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have the guilts if new people mean more to you now.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blake.

Never Explain - your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway. -Elbert Hubbard.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy--for friendship's sake.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. -Benjamin Disraeli.

The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger dividends, For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent, And he who gives in friendship's name shall reap what he has spent.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.