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Friends and friendship

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

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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

Mermet, Claude

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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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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Aristotle

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Auden, W. H.

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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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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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene