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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies an

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? – Thomas Jefferson

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It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. – Thomas Jefferson

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So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done. – Thomas Jefferson

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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. – Thomas Jefferson

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I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different. – Emma Bunton

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Friendship is essentially a partnership. – Aristotle

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Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. – Benjamin Franklin

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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