A trusty companion halves the journey and doubles the courage.
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The Coming Race
by
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much."
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Anne Of Avonlea
by
Lucy Maud Montgomery
"Oh, sometimes, I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came."
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Anne Of Avonlea
by
Lucy Maud Montgomery
An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.
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Phineas Redux
by
Anthony Trollope
The rising in life of our familiar friends is, perhaps, the bitterest morsel of the bitter bread which we are called upon to eat in life.
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Phineas Redux
by
Anthony Trollope
Maybe, he thought, there aren't any such things as good or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for, too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.
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It
by
Stephen King
He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to companionship with his own thoughts. He had never known before the strength of the want in his heart for the frequent recognition of a nod, a look, a word; or the immense amount of relief that had been poured into it by drops through such small means.
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Hard Times
by
Charles Dickens
He had sometimes wondered if the real reason why men sought danger was that only thus could they find the companionship and solidarity which they unconsciously craved.
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A Fall of Moondust
by
Arthur C. Clarke
The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
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Beasts and Super-Beasts
by
Saki
"'Well, now that we HAVE seen each other," said the Unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you."
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Through the Looking-Glass
by
Lewis Carroll