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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Sallust

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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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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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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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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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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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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

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

Bible

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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

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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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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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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

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