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Friends and friendship

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Proverb, Sicilian

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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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

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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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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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

Mermet, Claude

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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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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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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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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek