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Friends and friendship

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

Sallust

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Augustine, St.

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Prentice, George D.

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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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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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon