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Friends and friendship

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

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

O'Malley, Austin

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Proverb

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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

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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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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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

Woolf, Virginia

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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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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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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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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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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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.