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Friends and friendship

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

Lamb, Charles

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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

FeNelon, Francois

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Python, Monty

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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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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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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

Bible

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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

Terence

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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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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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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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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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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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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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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

Jerome, St.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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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

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas