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Friends and friendship

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

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

Tate, Nahum

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

Woolf, Virginia

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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.

10.

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

Proverb

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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

Proverb

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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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 best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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

Schulberg, Budd

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

Breton, Nicholas

33.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

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

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

43.

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

Python, Monty

44.

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

49.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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