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Friends and friendship

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

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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

Hazlitt, William

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Quarles, Francis

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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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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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Homer

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle