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Friends and friendship

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

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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

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

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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

Mansfield, Katherine

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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

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

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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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.

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Aristotle

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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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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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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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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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa