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Dear Friend Quotes

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.

Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 15 May 1783)

When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone.

"EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

Ah! dear friend, you little know the possibilities which are in you.

Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.205, Discovery House

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny.

William Shakespeare (2015). “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.54, Hackett Publishing

Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.156

My dear friend Aaron Paul. I love you so much.

"Bryan Cranston And Aaron Paul Teared Up During Each Other's Emmy Acceptance Speeches". Bryan Cranston's Emmy acceptance speech for "Outstanding Lead Actor" Award, www.businessinsider.com. August 26, 2014.

Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.

Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields (1859). “De Quincey's Writings: Historical and critical essays. 1853”, p.278