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Friends and friendship

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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 is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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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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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

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Seneca

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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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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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Jerome, St.

34.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

Proverb

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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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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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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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.

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Bible

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

Cervantes, Miguel De