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False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embr

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. – Richard Burton

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The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. – Richard Burton

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. – James F. Byrnes

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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. – Thomas Jefferson

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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. – Thomas Jefferson

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious – friendship and learning. – Jane Harrison

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They know a simple, merry, tender knack
Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes
And stringing pretty words that make no sense.
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Thats the biggest problem with boxing in the United States. They do not promote it like they used to, when it used to be Howard Cosell and they showed it on Wide World of Sports. Everybody knew all the fighters. Everybody was looking forward to the year when the Olympics came on. – Evander Holyfield

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