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Friends and friendship

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

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

Alcott, Louisa May

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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

Schulberg, Budd

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

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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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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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 the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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

Lee, Robert E.

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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

Proverb, Indian

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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

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma