"Love and friendship exclude each other" — Jean de La Bruyère

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend

Source: The New England Tragedies, John Endicott (1868)

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

Source: The Spectator, no. 225 (1711)

All for one, one for all.

Source: The Three Musketeers (1844)

To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with

Source: Following the Equator, ch. 48 (1897)

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does

Source: Emma (1815)

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