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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

No one has really ever defined what a friend is.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

I think the term 'friend' itself has lost almost all of its exclusivity. Even the term 'good friend' is overused. Adding the word 'vital' provides a clear definition of what we mean.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyment; and the texture of my own mind renders me very indifferent to the rest of the world.

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.