“Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.”
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friendship
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“I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.”
“It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.”
“Value your friendship. Value your relationships.”
“Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.”
“As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.”
“I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.”
“Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.”
“Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.”
“Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.”
“I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.”
“Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.”
“It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.”
“Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.”
“When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.”
“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.”
“Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures.”
“The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.”
“Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.”
“Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.”
“Love and friendship exclude each other.”
“Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.”
“Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.”
“Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.”