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Friends and friendship

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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

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

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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

Ovid

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

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

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

Edwards, Robert C.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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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 true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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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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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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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Storey, David

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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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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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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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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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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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