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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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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Euripides

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Proverb, Arabian

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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 the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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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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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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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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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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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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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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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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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason