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Friends and friendship

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

O'Malley, Austin

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Walker, Alice

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hubbard, Elbert

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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.

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

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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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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.

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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

Thackeray, William M.

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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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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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Bible

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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