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The best of friends must part

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  1. No matter how much friends care for each other, they cannot be together always.


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Good-bye, dear boy; sorry to lose you, but the best of friends must part.

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But woe is me that the best of friends must part.

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‘Well, the best of friends must part,’ said the lady. 

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But the best of friends must part, and when at Mrs. Howard's last tea-drinking with us I saw how badly they all felt, and how many tears were shed, I firmly resolved never to like anybody but my own folks, unless, indeed, I made an exception in favor of Tom Jenkins, who so often drew me to school on his sled, and who made such comical looking jack-o'-lanterns out of the big yellow pumpkins.

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The best of friends must part—their hair.

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