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The difficulty is not so much to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

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This quote is often misattributed to Homer.

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A man does but faintly relish that felicity which costs him nothing; happy they whom pain leads to pleasure.

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Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.

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Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!

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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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