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• There is no friend as loyal as a book.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Friendship, Powerful, Book

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Morning, Old Friends, Cards

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 2”, p.146, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

  Seneca the Younger

  Travel, Acquaintance, Persons

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter II)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.

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• Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men, Want, Made

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.87, eKitap Projesi

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• I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day.

  Keira Knightley

  College, Unhappy, Three

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have no friends. The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.

  Dian Fossey

  People, Gorillas, Want

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• The most valuable lesson I've ever learned in my life is that life is about family and friends, not about material things or any of that. It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

  Vanilla Ice

  Family And Friends, Lessons, Matter

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 14, 2011.

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• No friendship has done its work until it reaches the supremest satisfaction of spiritual communion.

  Hugh Black

  Spiritual, Real, Done

  Hugh Black (1986). “Friendship”, Harvest House Pub

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• To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who care for you; you are anchored in contentment. I drift about without rudder or compass, a wreck on the sea of life; I have no memories to cheer me, no pleasant illusions of the future to comfort me, or about me to satisfy my vanity. I have no family to furnish the only kind of survival that concerns us, no friends for the wholesome development of my affections, or enemies for my malice.

  Alfred Nobel

  Sister, Cheer, Memories

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• The only thing worse than having no friends is being pitied for having no friends.

  Lauren Oliver

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.342, Hachette UK

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• Milestone! This is a momentous occasion," he tells her cheerily. "It should be witnessed by a friend." She throws him an icy gaze, and he does a verbal back pedal. "Aaaand since no friends are present, I'll have to do.

  Neal Shusterman

  Icy, Doe, Should

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• She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school.

  Jerry Spinelli

  School, Persons, Jokes

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.17, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous.

  Aravind Adiga

  White, Dangerous, Tigers

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.178, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

  Benito Mussolini

  Being Strong, Reality, Looks

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• Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

  Confucius

  Integrity, Faults, Faithfulness

  Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• With this book in my hands, reading aloud to my friends, questioning them, explaining to them, I was made clearly to understand that I had no friends, that I was alone in the world. Because in not understanding the meaning of the words, neither I nor my friends, one thing became very clear and that was that there were ways of not understanding and that the difference between the non-understanding of one individual and the non-understanding of another created a world of terra firma even more solid than differences of understanding.

  Henry Miller

  Book, Reading, Hands

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• Moose had no friends that year. A lot of the time a moose would feel tired and lean against other moose. Only there wouldn't be moose there and the moose would fall.

  Tao Lin

  Fall, Tired, Years

  Tao Lin (2007). “Eeeee Eee Eeee: A Novel”, Melville House Pub

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• I had to feign interest in all this nonsense until I could ask when I could come over and sit on his face. I didn't say that out loud, of course. I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Humor, Dating

  Chelsea Handler (2005). “My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands”, p.63, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

  Aeschylus

  Friendship, Trust, Disease

  "Prometheus Bound". Play by Aeschylus,

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• No friend had I made there, but I wasn't with this group to make friends, and besides, he sneered too much. I've found that people who sneer are almost always sneering at me.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  People, Groups, Too Much

  Megan Whalen Turner (2017). “World of the Queen's Thief Collection: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings, Thick as Thieves”, p.20, HarperCollins

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• My love runs by like a day in June, And he makes no friends of sorrows. He'll tread his galloping rigadoon In the pathway of the morrows. He'll live his days where the sunbeams start, Nor could storm or wind uproot him. My own dear love, he is all my heart, -- And I wish somebody'd shoot him.

  Dorothy Parker

  Running, Heart, June

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  People, Ordinary, Care

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.662, Delphi Classics

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• There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Friends, People, Political

  "The Struggle for Russia". Book by Boris Yeltsin, 1994.

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• I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.

  Salman Rushdie

  Middle East, United States, Blair

  "Terror Is Glamour". "Spiegel" Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

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• For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

  Christina Rossetti

  Family, Sister, Cheer

  1862 Goblin Market and Other Poems,'Goblin Market'.

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