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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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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

15.

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

16.

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

Mermet, Claude

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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

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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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

20.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Bible

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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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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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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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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 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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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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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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

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

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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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

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome