Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. -George Eliot.
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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. -James F. Byrnes.
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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.
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