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Friends and friendship

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

Breton, Nicholas

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Proverb

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

10.

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

Machado, Aaron

11.

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

Prentice, George D.

12.

Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

13.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

15.

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

16.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

17.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

20.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

21.

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

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

Saying, Hasidic

24.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

25.

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

27.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

28.

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

Wein, Len

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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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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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

34.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

35.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

36.

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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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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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

43.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

44.

Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

45.

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius