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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

— Aeschylus

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

— Charles Eastman

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

— Norman Cousins

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

— Mencius

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

— Diogenes

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

— Samuel Johnson

To see a friend who has suffered the loss of all things begin again with trust and love, gives us strength to continue on.

— Mother Angelica

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

— Willa Cather

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