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  • Friendship — Celebrating the bonds of loyalty, trust, and companionship

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“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
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“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.", 1657)”
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“I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.”
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