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• What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.

  George Eliot

  Cute, Friendship, Faith

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.134, 谷月社

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• "I should hope so," Laigle replied, "for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm."

  Victor Hugo

  Friendship, Hurt, Wrinkles

  "Les Miserables".

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• In a Ramada Inn near the grapevine, they stop to rest for the night. Traveling down south, looking for good times. Visiting old friends feels right.

  Neil Young

  Travel, Night, Good Times

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• It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.

  Frederick Buechner

  Splits, Unsaid

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• I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Friendship, True Friend, Wine

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.4

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• There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good old friend.

  Katharine Butler Hathaway

  Encouraging, Encouragement

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• The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.

  Phillips Brooks

  Friends, Two, Sacred

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

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• The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I've known for 40 or 50 years, and they're old. And I suddenly realize I'm old. It comes as an enormous shock to me.

  Polly Bergen

  Running, Years, Faces

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• Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Exercise, Mad, May

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  I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Love, Friendship, Father

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• Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

  Ian Mckellen

  Unseen, Architecture, Love Your Life

  "Ian McKellen: 'I couldn't be a dad, I'm too selfish'". Mirror.co.uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 11, 2010.

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• Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Friends, Faults, Individual

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• It's not so much that the old friend is a better friend. It's just that you know the person better, and you know they don't really care if you're acting like a poor, grovelling idiot. They know you would do the same for them.

  Markus Zusak

  Acting, Care, Idiot

  Markus Zusak (2011). “Underdogs”, p.102, Scholastic Inc.

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• It's awkward, because sometimes you find new friends that are cooler than your old friends, and then your old friends desperately try to cling on to you even though you sort of hate them by now.

  Panda Bear

  Hate, Awkward, Trying

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• I intend to give my eighty-two-year-old dad a copy of God Never Blinks. I will also buy one for a sixteen-year-old friend. This wise, compassionate, and honest book is a blueprint for living a happy, fulfilling life. Its lessons are timeless – and timely.

  Thrity Umrigar

  Wise, Dad, Book

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• Words have divided man from woman,
  one from another, this from that,
  until only sages know how to put things together.
  Without words, without even understanding,
  lovers find each other.
  The moment of finding is always a surprise,
  like meeting an old friend never before known.

  Laozi

  Men, Understanding, Together

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• If you're going to be a Christian, you're going to change. You're going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.

  Johnny Cash

  Christian, Needs, Want

  Johnny Cash (1975). “MAN IN BLACK”

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• I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Practice, Giving

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• I really have to thank Facebook ... I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time. I would never say the people on it are losers, but that's only because I'm polite. People say 'But Betty, Facebook is a great way to connect with old friends.' Well at my age, if I wanna connect with old friends, I need a Ouija Board. Needless to say, we didn't have Facebook when I was growing up. We had phonebook, but you wouldn't waste an afternoon with it.

  Betty White

  Growing Up, People, Age

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• It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.

  William Banting

  True Friend, Exercise, Weight

  William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.12

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• Being with my wife and children in Kauai, seeing old friends there, being on the beach, painting, paddleboarding. Sitting under a Kauai moon with a bonfire going, buddies around. Those are the things that kind of make my world turn.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Beach, Children, Moon

  "A Conversation with Pierce Brosnan". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;-
  All things, in short, to which belong
  The charm, the grace that Time
  makes strong,
  All these I prize, but (entre nous)
  Old friends are best!

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Strong, Book, Wine

  Henry Austin Dobson, “To Richard Watson Gilder”

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• The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

  William O. Douglas

  Friendship, Struggle, Good Friend

  "An Almanac of Liberty". Book by William O. Douglas, 1954.

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• Tears and fears and feeling proud
  To say I love you, right out loud
  Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
  I've looked at life that way.
  But now old friends are acting strange
  They shake their heads, they say I've changed
  Something's lost, but something's gained
  In living every day
  I've looked at life from both sides now
  From win and lose, and still somehow
  It's life's illusions I recall
  I really don't know life at all

  Joni Mitchell

  Dream, Song, Love You

  "Both Sides Now" (song) (1967)

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• As far as the bands that are reforming now, it's always nice to see old friends and hear some of those great songs, but it's just not our thing.

  Ian MacKaye

  Song, Nice

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