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Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstan

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. – George Washington

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Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. – George Washington

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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. – George Washington

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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. – George Washington

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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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It is when there is nothing you can say or do to help that a friend needs you the most. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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People instantly assume you cant have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. – or America. – Isabel Lucas

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. – Jean de La Fontaine

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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other. – J. C. Watts

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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. – Elizabeth Bowen

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The true genius shudders at incompleteness — and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. – Edgar Allan Poe

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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. – Albert Camus

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