The chain of friendship however bright does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

Sir Walter Scott
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  3. If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever. - Alfred Tennyson

  4. You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together. - Nicholas Sparks

  5. Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about. - Jalaluddin Rumi

More Quotes By Sir Walter Scott
  1. ..[E]xcept the flying fish, there was no race existing on the earth, in the air, or the waters, who were the object of such an intermitting, general, and relentless persecution as the Jews of this period. Upon the slightest and most unreasonable pretences, as well...

  2. But search the land of living men Where wilt thou find their like again.

  3. Adversity is to me at least a tonic and a bracer.

  4. It is only when I dally with what I am about look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.

  5. To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

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