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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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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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

Mermet, Claude

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Storey, David

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

14.

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, Arabian

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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

White, Somers

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

30.

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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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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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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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Make friends before you need them

41.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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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

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald