Quote by Samuel Johnson
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. – Samuel Johnson

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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. – Samuel Johnson

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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good. – Samuel Johnson

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Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. – Elbert Hubbard

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Im calling my book series the with God series. And this next with God book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of better on this planet. – Neale Donald Walsch

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. – Kenneth Branagh

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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. – Edward Gibbon

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When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and its a pretty honorable position to be in. – Eric Clapton

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