Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.