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Friends and friendship

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha