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Friends and friendship

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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

Dyke, Henry Van

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Hsieh, Tehyi

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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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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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Lamb, Charles

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

Wycherley, William

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Rothschild, William E.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bach, Richard

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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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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur