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Friends and friendship

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

Bible

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, Arabian

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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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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

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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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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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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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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

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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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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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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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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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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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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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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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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

41.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian