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Friends and friendship

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

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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

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

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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

Barrymore, Ethel

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

12.

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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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in 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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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

19.

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

Breton, Nicholas

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Hazlitt, William

22.

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

Python, Monty

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

28.

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

29.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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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 true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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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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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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