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• L'amour vient de l'aveuglement, l'amitie de la connaissance.
  [Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge]. -- Comte de Bussy-Rabuti...
• No man is a hero to his valet. -- Anne-Marie Bigot de Cornuel
• True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.
• Friendship can turn to Love, but Love can NEVER turn to Friendship.
• Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
  -- Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramee)...
• We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
  -- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach...
• A broken friendship may be solder'd, but will never be sound. -- Proverb
• The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for another's little lapses. -- David Storey
• True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.