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Friends and friendship

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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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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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

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Terence

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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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.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Proverb, English

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

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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

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

Bible

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

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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.

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

Ebers, George

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak