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Friends and friendship

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Prentice, George D.

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

Wycherley, William

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

Schulberg, Budd

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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

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

Ebers, George

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

Aristotle

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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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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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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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

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

Machado, Aaron

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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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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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

27.

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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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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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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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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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

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques