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Friends and friendship

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lamb, Charles

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Make friends before you need them

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

Proverb

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

Aristotle

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Python, Monty

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

21.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Digest, Readers

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

32.

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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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

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

43.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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

Hazlitt, William

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.