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Furthermore, Friendship seems to be the bond of Social Communities, and legislators seem to be more anxious to secure it than Justice even.

The prime reason for social intercourse is mutual need; and as soon as that is satisfied, boredom drives people together once more.

the need of society drives the human porcupines together--only to be mutually repelled by the many prickly and disagreeable qualities of their nature

Come back, before I am grown into a very old man, so as you shall hardly know me.

My heart is as dry as that spring sometimes proves in a thirsty August, when I revert to the space that is between us; a length of passage enough to render obsolete the phrases of our English letters before they can reach you.

The partners, and the clerks, with whom I had for so many years, and for so many hours in each day of the year, been closely associated--being suddenly removed from them--they seemed as dead to me.

To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company.

If I associate not with these people,-- with mankind,-- with whom shall I associate?

It is not kind in you to desire an increase of my friendship; that is to doubt it is not as great already as it can be, than which you cannot do me a greater injury.

The unity of God preserves a unity in men--that is, a perpetual sympathy between man and man--which sympathy we must be subject to, if not in our joys, yet in our griefs.

If sorrow in its reaction makes us think of our friends, let my name come among the list of yours to you, and with it let the thought come that I am not the coldest and least sincere.

The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Tell all my friends in Concord that I do not send my love, but retain it still.

Methinks, if I loved him more, I should keep him--I should keep myself rather--at a more respectful distance.

At death our friends and relations either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart further from us and are forgotten.

Fatal is the discovery that our friend is fallible, that he has prejudices.

What signifies the census--this periodical numbering of men--to one who has no friend?

Our thoughts would imply that other men have friends, though we have not.

There are some days when we need a hand. There are other days when we're called on to lend one.

Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession.

granting that we had both the will and the sense to choose our friends well, how few of us have the power! or, at least, how limited, for most, is the sphere of choice!

Running in this Road I found many like myself; and we associated in that which is the reverse of true Friendship.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Now friendship may be thus defined: a complete accord on all subjects human and divine, joined with mutual goodwill and affection.