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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.

— A. A. Milne The House at Pooh Corner (1928)

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"Yes," said Tigger, "they're very good flyers, Tiggers are. Strornry good flyers."

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"Nearly eleven o'clock," said Pooh happily. "You're just in time for a little smackerel of something."

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"You only blinched inside," said Pooh, "and that's the bravest way for a Very Small Animal not to blinch that there is."

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

Gautama Buddha

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

Sanu Sharma

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!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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.

Anaïs Nin Diary entries (1914)

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