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Friends and friendship

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

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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

Lee, Robert E.

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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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

Sallust

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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

Wein, Len

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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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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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

Seneca

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Breton, Nicholas

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

Randolf, G.

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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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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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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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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.