“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”Essays, First Series — Friendship · View source
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“I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks.”Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 3 · View source
“Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters?”Analects, Book 1 (Xue Er) · View source
“Within the four seas, all are brothers.”Analects, Book 12 (Yan Yuan) · View source
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”Essays, First Series — Friendship · View source
“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.”Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet 116 · View source
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep.”Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2 · View source
“Doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.”Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2 · View source
“Journeys end in lovers meeting.”Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 3 · View source
“I do love nothing in the world so well as you. Is not that strange?”Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4, Scene 1 · View source
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.”A Christmas Carol, Stave Three · View source
“I would not wish any companion in the world but you.”The Tempest, Act 3, Scene 1 · View source
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