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Friends and friendship

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

10.

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

11.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

12.

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

14.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

15.

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

20.

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

22.

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

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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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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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 are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

33.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

35.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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

Wycherley, William

44.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

49.

Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

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