To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or perso

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time. – Cornelia Otis Skinner

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Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. – Voltaire

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We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature. – Abraham Lincoln

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade. – Baltasar Gracian

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