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"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief." -
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Joseph Addison
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"If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius."
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"Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage."
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"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings."
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"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy--for friendship's sake."
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