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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Wein, Len

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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 die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Sallust

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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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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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

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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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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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

Lee, Robert E.

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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