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Friends and friendship

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

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Lee, Robert E.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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

Schulberg, Budd

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

White, Somers

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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

Saying, Hasidic

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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

Blake, William

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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

Crane, Frank

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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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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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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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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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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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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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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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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... 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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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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