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Friends and friendship

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

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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.

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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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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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

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

Python, Monty

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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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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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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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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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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May I always be worth of my friends.