Rare is true love: true friendship is still rarer.
--_Rochefoucauld._
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Real friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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He is my friend that helps me, and not he that pities me.
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Friendship has a power
To soothe affliction in her darkest hour.
--_H. Kirke White._
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O summer friendship,
Whose flattering leaves, that shadow'd us in
Our prosperity, with the least gust drop off
In th' autumn of adversity!
--_Massinger._
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